Schultz v. Duitz’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2003
13 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 Robenson v. Yann · Williamson v. Johnson · Lewis v. Lewis · Hoagland v. Hoagland · 18 La. App. 387 - Wardlaw v. Conrad
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Though the origin of the engagement ring has heen forgotten, it still retains its character of a pledge, or something to bind the bargain or contract to marry, and it is given on the understanding that a party who breaks the contract must return it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.