Judd v. Schooley’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2014
16 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 55 So. 2d 730 - Whiteley v. Webb's City · Commonwealth v. Rutherfoord · 157 So. 2d 79 - Juarrero v. McNayr · 149 So. 2d 587 - Schooley v. Judd · Smith v. Voight
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... reasons given by the trial judge are merely surplusage unless relied upon specifically by the District Court. It is elementary that the statements of the trial judge cannot be a basis for conflict jurisdiction before this Court, as our jurisdiction requires a decision of a District Court of Appeal which is in conflict with a decision of this Court or of another District Court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[u]nder modern statutes a married woman may now own separate property, enter into contracts, sue and be sued, engage in business, and otherwise conduct her affairs almost with the same absence of restraint as if she were a feme sole." Judd v. Schooley, Fla. 1963, 158 So.2d 514 , citing § 708.08, Fla. Stat., F.S.A.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“too great an emphasis on the common-law fiction that by marriage a woman's identity is absorbed into that of her husband.”
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.