Seibert Green County State Wisconsin’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably In Re Sampson (1993), Dekalb County Division of Family & Children Services v. Platter (1998)
7 federal appellate · 1 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 Pauley v. Spong · Williams v. Williams · Harrell v. Sharp · Farrey v. Sanderfoot · 76 Wis. 2d 595 - Larson v. Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The 1984 amendment to § 523(a)(5), which added the italicized language “in connection with a separation agreement, divorce decree, or other order of a court of record,” was intended to address the problem of support for children born outside of marriage. The purpose of this amendment was to make the security of support depend on parentage, rather than the marital status of the biological parents.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“By determining dischargeability with reference to federal bankruptcy law, we ensure uniformity of treatment of debtors who are similarly situated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.