Shultz v. Shultz’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2003 · most notably 40 Md. App. 1 - Klein v. Whitehead (1978), Anderson v. Anderson (1979)
3 federal appellate · 29 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Earle v. Earle · Nealis v. Dicks · Hogg v. Link
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Until that judgment is out of the way, the appellant cannot recover another judgment which operates as an impeachment of the first judgment. ... so long as it (the judgment) stands, it imports absolute verity as to every proposition of law and fact essential to its existence against all ■ parties to it. . . . it makes no difference how wicked the conspiracy was that is charged against all the parties to bring about that result. As the result was just, right, and lawful, the conspiracy and evil acts charged did not harm appellant,- — did not deprive her of any legal right, — and therefore no ground to complain is shown. . . .” (Our emphasis)”
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.