Singer v. Singer’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably 74 Wis. 2d 239 - Radue v. Dill (1976), 79 Wis. 2d 241 - Onderdonk v. Lamb (1977)
21 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 Wait v. Pierce · Herron v. Hughes · Jones v. Monson · Judevine v. Benzies-Montanye Fuel & Warehouse Co. · City of Milwaukee v. Drew
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n a civil action for damages for an executed conspiracy, the gist of the action is the damages.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““This section, which has been upon the statute books for many years, limits a wife’s right to maintain an action in her own name to injuries to her person or character. Nor is this provision of the statute enlarged by sec. 6.015 (1), Stats.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.