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← 99 Wis. 2d 241 - Halbman v. Lemke

99 Wis. 2d 241 - Halbman v. Lemke’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
March 1998
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Nelson v. Browning · Hall v. Butterfield · 39 Wis. 2d 20 - Kiefer v. Fred Howe Motors, Inc. · Fisher Ex Rel. Fisher v. Taylor Motor Co. · Adamowski v. Curtiss-Wright Flying Service, Inc.

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

  1. “minors from foolishly squandering their wealth through improvident contracts with crafty adults who would take advantage of them in the marketplace.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “it is settled law ... that a contract of a minor for items which are not necessaries is void or voidable at the minor's option.”
    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.