57 Wis. 2d 77 - Ray v. Ray’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2006
14 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 10 Wis. 2d 438 - Miner v. Miner · 47 Wis. 2d 635 - Bliwas v. Bliwas · 25 Wis. 2d 315 - Madison Bank & Trust Co. v. Beat · Cortte v. Tolzman · Nickolay v. Estate of Nickolay
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The court has the same serious duty to examine carefully such agreements or stipulations against the background of full information of the economic status and resources of the parties as it has in making a determination without the aid of such an agreement. . . . There is no such thing in this state as a divorce by consent or agreement. The parties cannot by stipulation proscribe, modify, or oust the court of its power to determine the disposition of property, alimony, support, custody, or other matters involved in a divorce proceeding. When a court follows and adopts an agreement of the parties making it a part of its judgment, the court does so on its own responsibility, and the provisions become its own judgment.’ ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) family settlements, which contemplate a continuation of the marriage relation, and (b) separation agreements . . . which are made after separation or in contemplation of a separation in the immediate future.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“attempts to limit rights and liabilities between the parties after a divorce.”
2 later decisions 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.