Schmidt v. Schmidt’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2003
4 federal appellate · 9 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 Fleck v. Baldwin · Anderson v. Menefee · Henderson, Extr. v. Moore · Rust v. Rust · Neely v. Brogden
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A careful examination of these authorities fails to support the proposition advanced by appellees. Each of the cited cases involves the question of whether or not certain acts by a principal constituted a ‘gift inter vivos’ or simply an ‘agency.’ It is true that in each of the cited cases the court held that no gift was made but in no case does the court support its action upon the broad statement contained in appellees’ proposition nor does the court infer such proposition to be a correct statement of the law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Land v. Marshall
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.