Schultz v. Oldenburg’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2013
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
Relies on City of St. Paul v. Colter · Lockway v. Modern Woodmen of America · Knox v. Haug · Champ v. Brown · Thorpe v. Hanscom
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“From what has been said in prior cases it is clear that what the law aims to do is to protect the property and estate of one who is in fact incapable of doing so for himself. But his incapacity cannot be changed from a shield of protection to a rapier of offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parrish v. Peoples
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.