Hansen v. Hansen’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 1964
4 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 Acheson v. Acheson · Estate of Nols · Elies v. Elies · Hellermann v. Hellermann
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would serve no useful purpose to enter into a detailed review of the testimony. Neither the bench, the bar, the parties in this case, nor the children involved, would profit by such a narration. The welfare of the children is the controlling consideration. Hellermann v. Hellermann, (1946), 249 Wis. 190 , 23 N. W. (2d) 408 . The action of the trial court in resolving that question should not be disturbed unless clearly wrong. Acheson v. Acheson (1940), 235 Wis. 610 , 294 N. W. 6 . Here we cannot say that any such error is shown.” '”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sullivan v. Sullivan
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.