97 Wis. 2d 111 - Edwards v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

cited by 44 later decisions

states following

November 2013

most recently cited

44 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably 208 Wis. 2d 166 - In RE MARRIAGE OF COOK v. Cook (1997), 159 Wis. 2d 803 - In RE MARRIAGE OF HUBERT v. Hubert (1990)

44 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 72 Wis. 2d 631 - Anderson v. Anderson · 52 Wis. 2d 20 - Balaam v. Balaam · 82 Wis. 2d 36 - Perrenoud v. Perrenoud · 15 Wis. 2d 115 - Knutson v. Knutson · 89 Wis. 2d 509 - Besaw v. Besaw

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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“A divorced husband should be allowed a fair choice of a means of livelihood and to pursue what he honestly feels are his best opportunities even though he might for the present, at least, be working for a lesser financial return. This rule is, of course, subject to reasonableness commensurate with his obligations to his children and his former wife.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Marriage of Van Offeren v. Van Offeren · 146 Wis. 2d 652 - In RE MARRIAGE OF ROELLIG v. Roellig
“fairly or diligently working at the occupation which he [was] best suited for, [or] that he [was] willfully accepting employment and resultant lower compensation for the purpose of reducing his ability to pay . . . support money.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 117 Wis. 2d 249 - Marriage of Dennis · 177 Wis. 2d 128 - In RE MARRIAGE OF SMITH v. Smith
“rests within the sound discretion of the trial court”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Derleth v. Cordova · 172 Wis. 2d 124 - In RE MARRIAGE OF HEFTY v. Hefty

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.