71 Wis. 2d 382 - Severson v. Severson’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably 72 Wis. 2d 631 - Anderson v. Anderson (1976), 103 Wis. 2d 449 - Behnke v. Behnke (1981)
30 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 · 21 Wis. 2d 442 - Kritzik v. Kritzik · 40 Wis. 2d 632 - Foregger v. Foregger · 51 Wis. 2d 296 - Thies v. MacDonald · 15 Wis. 2d 291 - Block v. Block
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An increase in support payments will be granted only where the party seeking such increase demonstrates that there has been a substantial or material change in the circumstances upon which the existing payments were predicated, and that such an increase is justified. The aging of the children, the increased cost of living, the ability of the noncustodial parent to pay, the marital status of the parents, and the financial status of the parents and their spouses, are among the relevant factors to be considered in determining whether a material change in the circumstances has occurred.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the court's power to modify is not the power to grant a new trial or to retry the issues determined in the original judgment, but 'only to adapt the decree to some distinct and definite change in the financial circumstances of the parties or children.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“particularly... where it was recommended to the trial court in a stipulation of the divorcing parties,”
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.