Schaffer v. Schaffer’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently July 2004 · most notably Sportsmen's Boating Corp. v. Hensley (1984), Carpenter v. Carpenter (1982)
60 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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Pandolphe's Auto Parts, Inc. v. Town of Manchester · Birnbaum v. Ives · Kaplan v. Kaplan · Vogel v. Sylvester
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact-finding function is vested in the trial court with its unique opportunity to view the evidence presented in a totality of circumstances, i.e., including its observations of the demeanor and conduct of the witnesses and parties, which is not reflected in the cold, printed record. . . .”
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.