Schultz v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2023
11 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 Young v. Boswell · Whitehead v. Garrett · Home Development Co. v. Hankins · Baldwin v. Gillaspie · Lucas v. Lively
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he judgment rendered [in a quiet title action] is final and conclusive as against the parties thereto and their privies.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The purpose of an action to quiet title . . . is to determine who is the real owner of the property and to put to rest all adverse claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. WISHON v. SANDERS
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.