Schult v. Schult’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably Wendt v. Wendt (2000), In re Shyina B. (2000)
101 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 Yontef v. Yontef · Stamford Hospital v. Vega · Ridgeway v. Ridgeway · Newman v. Newman · Blake v. Blake
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The best interests of the child include the child's interests in sustained growth, development, well-being, and continuity and stability of its environment.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“The purpose of appointing counsel for a minor child in a dissolution action is to ensure independent representation of the child's interests, and such representation must be entrusted to the professional judgment of appointed counsel within the usual constraints applicable to such representation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The trial court is vested with broad discretion in determining what is in the child's best interests.”
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.