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39 Wis. 2d 20 - Kiefer v. Fred Howe Motors, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis

1968

Citation profile

24
cited by 24 later decisions
2
states following
March 1998
most recently cited

6 federal appellate · 12 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 1998

6 federal appellate · 12 state decisions

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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 First National Bank in Oshkosh v. Scieszinski · Schoenung v. Gallet · Grauman, Marx & Cline Co. v. Krienitz · Wisconsin Loan & Finance Corp. v. Goodnough

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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “... the contract of a minor [one who has not attained the age of 21], other than for necessaries, is either void or voidable at his option,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “the minor [is] immature in both mind and experience and ... should be protected from his own bad judgments....”
    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.