Schwarting v. Schwarting’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2010
1 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 Kruger v. Soreide · Atlas Ready-Mix of Minot, Inc. v. White Properties, Inc. · Hook v. Crary · Diemert v. Johnson · Thomas C. Roel Associates, Inc. v. Henrikson
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when good arguments can be made for either of two contrary positions as to the meaning of a term in a document.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bye v. Elvick“inadmissible to vary or contradict the terms of a written contract between the parties to the contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bye v. Elvick
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.