Schmidt v. Royer’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2026
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 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
Applies 44 U.S.C. § 1507
Relies on Stevenson v. Reed · Shaffer v. Honeywell, Inc. · Albers v. Ottenbacher · State v. Goodroad · City of Colton v. Schwebach
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court shall make and file the order granting or denying such new trial within twenty days after the service and filing of such motion, unless for good cause shown, the court files an order within said twenty days extending the time for entering such order. If a motion for new trial has not been determined by the court and no order has been entered by the court extendiny the time for such ruliny within twenty days from the date of service and tiling of such motion, it shall be deemed denied. 2”
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.