Fleming v. Fleming’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2020
4 district · 13 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Rubisoff v. Rubisoff · Herzmark v. Herzmark · Sullivan v. Sullivan · 70 Wis. 2d 115 - Taake v. Taake · Schrader v. Schrader
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"That any persons living together as man and wife within this state without being married shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than thirty days nor more than three months."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hill v. Hill
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.