82 Wis. 2d 158 - West v. West’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably 124 Wis. 2d 85 - Neylan v. Vorwald (1985), 114 Wis. 2d 575 - Wengerd v. Rinehart (1983)
2 federal appellate · 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 48 Wis. 2d 1 - Home Bank v. Becker · 52 Wis. 2d 786 - Span v. Span · 37 Wis. 2d 263 - Beneficial Finance Co. v. Lee
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all that is needed is the determination that, in fact, jurisdiction was not acquired in the proceedings that led up to the entry of the judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“held that the attempted acquisition of jurisdiction by publication was ineffective, because there was a showing that due diligence had not been exercised to serve [the surviving spouse] personally,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“presupposes the entry of a valid judgment. . . . It has nothing whatsoever to do with the vacation of a void judgment. . . . A void judgment may be expunged by a court at any time.”
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.