52 Wis. 2d 262 - Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2023
8 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 35 Wis. 2d 401 - Davidson v. Davidson · 23 Wis. 2d 318 - Hutschenreuter v. Hutschenreuter · Lyannes v. Lyannes · Dusek v. Onufrey · Hoffman v. Hoffman
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is in the public interest to maintain a marriage relationship.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In both Hoffman and Hutschenreuter , one of the parties entered into the marriage in good faith, without knowledge of the impediment. In the instant case the evidence shows that Mr. Smith may have known of the impediment to his marriage with Mrs. Smith. However, the significant holding of Hoffman and Hutschenreuter is that this court concluded that a seemingly null and void marriage meant voidable in situations where the impediment to the second marriage was removed. 52 Wis.2d 262, 268 .”
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.