Schneider v. Hawkins’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Ashburn v. Anne Arundel County (1986), James v. Prince George's County (1980)
5 federal appellate · 62 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 Langnes v. Green · Rocca v. Thompson · Santovincenzo v. Egan · In Re the Estate of D'Adamo · Rocca v. Thompson
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term “discretion” denotes freedom to act according to one’s judgment in the absence of a hard and fast rule. When applied to public officials, “discretion” is the power conferred upon them by law to act officially under certain circumstances according to the dictates of their own judgment and conscience, and uncontrolled by the judgment or conscience of others.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In case of the death of a national of either of the High Contracting Parties without will or testament, in the territo ry of the other High Contracting Party, the consular officer of the State of which the deceased was a national and within whose district the deceased made his home at the time of death, shall, so far as the laws of the country permit and pending the appointment of an administrator and until letters of administration have been granted, be deemed qualified to take charge of the property left by the decedent for the preservation and protection of the same. Such consular officer shall have the right to be appointed as administrator within the discretion of a tribunal or other agency controlling the administration of estates provided the laws of the place where the estate is administered so permit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he question presented is also of grave importance because its solution in favor of the [Consul General of Italy] necessarily ascribes to the federal government the intent, by means of its treaty-making power, to materially abridge the autonomy of the several states and to interfere with and direct the state tribunals in proceedings affecting private property within their jurisdictions. It is obvious that such intent is not to be lightly imputed to the federal government and that it cannot be allowed to exist except where the language used in a treaty plainly expresses it, or necessarily implies it.”
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.