Schaeffer v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently March 1983 · most notably Ray v. Richardson (1948), Stallings v. State (1946)
50 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 Cobb v. Malone · Ladd v. . Stevenson · Batson v. State Ex Rel. Davis · Parker v. Hayes Lumber Co. · Evans v. Wilhite
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The rule of the common law is thus stated in 34 Corpus Juris, Section 436, p. 207: `A court has full control over its orders or judgments during the term at which they are made, and may, upon sufficient cause shown, in the exercise of its sound discretion, amend, correct, revise, supplement, open or vacate such judgments. This was the rule at common law, and it prevails in almost all jurisdictions.'" Schaeffer v. Walker, 241 Ala. 530, 532 , 3 So.2d 405 (1941). (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carter v. State
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.