49 Wis. 2d 26 - Shetney v. Shetney’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably 206 Wis. 2d 158 - Management Computer Services, Inc. v. Hawkins, Ash, Baptie & Co. (1996), Dairyland Greyhound Park, Inc. v. Doyle (2006)
34 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 45 Wis. 2d 378 - Lacey v. Lacey · Cappon v. O'Day · Gauger v. Gauger · 39 Wis. 2d 30 - Bank of Commerce v. PAINE, WEBBER, J. & C. · Syver v. Hahn
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 court may also finally divide and distribute the estate, both real and personal, of either party between the parties and divest and transfer the title of any thereof accordingly, after having given due regard to the legal and equitable rights of each party, the length of the marriage, the age and health of the parties, the liability of either party for debts or support of children, their respective abilities and estates, whether the property award is in lieu of or in addition to alimony, the character and situation of the parties and all the circumstances of the case . . . .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . . We do not read the quote as establishing an exact formula or mandatory measuring stick for property division in divorce cases. We find in the full quotation a clear recognition that the formula to be followed in a particular case depends upon and derives from the material facts and factors present in such case. ... “Even in its entirety, the 1914 fountainhead decision seems to us now to stress the starting point too much, the finishing point too little. It is the equitableness of the result reached that must, stand the test of fairness on review.-...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'It is not enough that the parties think that they have made a contract; they must have expressed their intentions in a manner that is capable of understanding. It is not even enough that they have actually agreed, if their expressions, when interpreted in the light of accompanying factors and circumstances, are not such that the court can determine what the terms of that agreement are.'”
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.