Schmidt v. Schmidt’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Wolt v. Wolt (2010), Amsbaugh v. Amsbaugh (2004)
34 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 Stassen for President Citizens Committee v. Jordan · Military Toxics Project v. Environmental Protection Agency · Lapp v. Lapp · Van Dyke v. Van Dyke · Hicks v. Mickelson
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he capacity and disposition of the parents to give the child[ren] love, affection, and guidance and to continue the education of the child[ren].”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“2. After making an award of custody, the court shall, upon request of the noncustodial parent, grant such rights of visitation as will enable the child and the noncustodial parent to maintain a parent-child relationship that will be beneficial to the child, unless the court finds, after a hearing, that visitation is likely to endanger the child’s physical or emotional health.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A finding of fact is clearly erroneous if it is induced by an erroneous view of the law, if there is no evidence to support it, or if, although there is some evidence to support it, on the entire evidence, we are left with a definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been made.”
2 later decisions 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.