Schumann v. Dally’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 1988
5 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 Watson v. Jones · Bouldin v. Alexander · First Baptist Church of Redland v. Ward · Woods v. Humber
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where rules and regulations are made by the church functionaries or by long and established custom and usage, they will be enforced by civil courts if not in conflict with some civil law bearing upon the subject of such rules and regulations. Schumann v. Dally, Tex.Civ.App., 29 S.W.2d 422 ; Alexander v. Bowers, Tex.Civ.App., 79 S.W. 342 .””
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.