Schultz v. . Schultz’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 1972 · most notably Josephine Throckmorton v. Washington Holt (1901), In Re Proving the Last Will & Testament of Kennedy (1901)
35 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever any will of real or personal estate shall be lost or destroyed, by accident or design, the supreme court shall have power to take proof of the execution and validity of such will, and to establish the same as in the case of lost deeds.” 35 N. Y. 654 , 91 Am. Dec. 88 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Merrick v. Prescott
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.