56 Wis. 2d 369 - Becker v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2007
18 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 Gauger v. Hintz · Schneck v. Mutual Service Casualty Insurance · 5 Wis. 2d 335 - Wesolowski v. Erickson · Town of Greenfield v. Village of West Milwaukee · 45 Wis. 2d 689 - Rank v. Lease Associates, Inc.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he purpose of [the derivative action statute] is to reduce the incidence of `strike suits' by persons who have purchased the stock with the intention of bringing derivative actions for wrongs sustained by the corporation prior to their ownership.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]hen a settlor creates a trust by declaration naming himself as sole trustee, no transfer of ownership occurs.”
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.