40 Wis. 2d 649 - Schmidt v. Schmidt’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably 45 Wis. 2d 378 - Lacey v. Lacey (1970), 93 Wis. 2d 671 - Wilharms v. Wilharms (1980)
36 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 18 Wis. 2d 379 - Estate of Boyd · Radandt v. Radandt · 14 Wis. 2d 38 - Pasternak v. Pasternak · Illinois Steel Co. v. Warras · Czap v. Czap
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The discretion of the trial court to relieve parties from stipulations when improvident or induced by fraud, misunderstanding or mistake, or rendered inequitable by the development of a new situation, is a legal discretion to be exercised in the promotion of justice and equity, and there must be a plain case of fraud, misunderstanding or mistake to justify relief. Illinois Steel Co. v. Warras (1909), 141 Wis. 119 , 123 N. W. 656 .””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[O]ral stipulations made in open court during trial, taken down by the reporter and acted upon by the parties and the court are valid and binding.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““In Strandberg v. Strcmdberg this court stated: “ ‘Among the circumstances of the case which should be taken into consideration are age, health and ability of the parties to earn, the manner in which the estate was accumulated, the conduct of the parties, and length of the marriage.’ ” Spheeris v. Spheeris, supra, 510. “The guidelines in property division cases were restated in Radandt v. Radandt (1966), 30 Wis. 2d 108, 113 , 140 N. W. 2d 293 : “ ‘While the division of estate in a divorce action is peculiarly within the discretion of the trial court, this court has repeatedly laid down the guideline that in general a third of the estate is a liberal allowance to the wife”
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.