Schoonover v. Schoonover’s Empirical Analysis
172 F.2d 526 · 1949
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Dotschay v. National Mutual Insurance Company (1957), Blazer v. Black (1952)
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 Matthews v. Rodgers · Hiram Barber v. Huldah a Barber by Her Next Friend George Cronkhite · Harding v. Robinson · Henderson v. United States Radiator Corp. · Hawkins v. Frick-Reid Supply Corp.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the prayer forms no part of the cause of action, ... a pleader will be entitled to the relief made out by the case and stated in the pleadings, irrespective of what is asked for in the prayer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.