Schweider v. Schweider’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 40 Va. App. 255 - Congdon v. Congdon (2003), 14 Va. App. 270 - Frey v. Frey (1992)
40 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 Bateman Eichler, Hill Richards, Inc. v. Berner · Cheatham v. Gregory · Petachenko v. Petachenko · Bristow v. Bristow · Hankerson v. Moody
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'liv[ing] together in the same house as married persons live together, or in the manner of husband and wife.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The findings of a trial court after an ore tenue hearing should not be disturbed on appeal unless they are plainly wrong or without evidence to support them. A trial court’s conclusion based on undisputed evidence, however, does not have the same binding weight on appeal. Moreover, a fact finder may not arbitrarily disregard uncontradicted evidence that is not inherently incredible.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the wife's permanent cohabitation with a male as if to all appearances they were otherwise married.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Luttrell v. Cucco
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.