Schultz v. Schultz’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2022
13 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 Hoskinson v. Hoskinson · Wait v. Leavell Cattle, Inc. · Moye v. Moye · Hopper v. Hopper · Navarro v. Yonkers
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]his Court asks first whether the magistrate court correctly perceived the ... issue as one of discretion; then whether the magistrate court acted within the outer boundaries of its discretion and consistently with the legal standards applicable to the specific choices available to the court; and finally, whether the magistrate court reached its decision by an exercise of reason.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The magistrate court should have examined all the evidence to determine [the child's] best interest and reached a supported, well reasoned conclusion before entering its order. Since the Court failed in this duty, it abused its discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the distance between the father and child created when [the mother] moved to Oregon.”
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.