Schwartz v. Dolan’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2012
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Pioneer Investment Services Company v. Brunswick Associates Limited Partnership · Hilton v. Braunskill · Lambert v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · Rosano v. United States · Vito Matarese v. Eugene Lefevre
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the judgment work[ed] no extreme and undue hardship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schwartz v. Dolan“no new, let alone extraordinary, circumstances”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schwartz v. Dolan
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.