41 Wis. 2d 435 - Dees v. Dees’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently June 1998 · most notably 84 Wis. 2d 124 - Bloomer v. Bloomer (1978), 45 Wis. 2d 378 - Lacey v. Lacey (1970)
64 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 29 Wis. 2d 145 - Wendland v. Wendland · 21 Wis. 2d 442 - Kritzik v. Kritzik · Larson v. Larson · Welker v. Welker · 41 Wis. 2d 275 - Koslowsky v. Koslowsky
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Even in such era and under such circumstances, the twin prerequisites for such court order for contribution were the need of the wife and the ability to pay of the husband. . . .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . . A court should not necessarily feel impelled to make a finding of unfitness on the part of the mother when it has determined that the best interests of the child demand its custody be placed in the father. . . .””
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.