Schwartz v. Schwartz’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably 82 Ill. 2d 40 - Joiner v. Benton Community Bank (1980), 230 Ill. App. 3d 40 - Ray Dancer, Inc. v. D M C Corp. (1992)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 74 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 Shedd v. Patterson · Glenn v. Lawrence · French v. Willer · Norin v. Scheldt Manufacturing Co. · Bush v. Hanson
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the suit here was dismissed upon acceptance of a tender, such cannot be said to have been a termination favorable to the appellant for the reason that he paid the amount of the note and interest to its due date in order to procure dismissal of the suit. Such payment is, itself, evidence of probable cause for the suit.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is not claimed that any of appellant’s property was attached or that he was in any way hindered in handling it. While the charge is that because of this judgment against him his credit was injured and his property became subject to a lien for the judgment, yet such are characteristics of all money judgments in ordinary civil cases. There is no evidence that appellant attempted to deal with his property during the few days in which this judgment was in existence. There is no evidence of special loss to him of any character, over and above the ordinary expense and trouble attendant upon the defense of an ordinary civil suit, and, therefore, under the rule announced in Smith v. Michigan Buggy Co., supra, and other cases herein cited, there is no showing of special damages.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`courts should be open to litigants for the settlement of their rights without fear of prosecution for calling upon the courts to determine such rights.'”
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.