Schuster v. Schuster’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently October 2001 · most notably Parks v. Parks (1940), Cummings v. Lockwood (1958)
4 federal appellate · 35 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on McFadden v. McFadden · Brown v. Brown · Williams v. Williams · North v. North · Dowie v. Becker
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. That plaintiff is now and for more than six weeks prior to the commencement of this action, to-wit: since the 13th day of November, 1946, has been an actual bona fide resident and domiciliary of the County of Clark, State of Nevada, actually and physically residing and being domiciled therein during all of said period of time. “2. That plaintiff and defendant intermarried at the City of Alton, State of Illinois, on or about the 15th day of February, 1930, and they ever since have been and still are husband and wife. “3. That there are two minor children the issue of said marriage, to-wit: Betty Lou .Lagemann, aged about fifteen (15) years, and Lila Lee Lagemann, aged about eleven (11) years: that said minor children are now in the custody of the plaintiff, and that it is for the best interests of said minor children that their care, custody and control be awarded to plaintiff. “4. That there are no property rights of the parties hereto within the State of Nevada to be adjudicated. “5. That the plaintiff and defendant have lived separate and apart for more than three (3) successive years last past to-wit: since the 10th day of June, 1937, and immediately preceding the commencement of this action, without cohabitation. “6. The Court finds upon the allegations' and admissions in the pleadings that the defendant was committed to Alton State Hospital at Alton, Illinois, on the 10th day of June, 1937; that thereafter and' on the 10th day of June, 1941, the said defendant was pa”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lagemann v. Lagemann“This clearly refers to the past as well as to the future and brings the language expressly within the meaning of section 3038, supra. To accomplish this purpose it was not necessary that the legislature use the expression, `this statute shall be retroactive,' or any similar one. Any language that shows a legislative purpose to bring about this result is sufficient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davidson v. Love
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.