Schauer v. Schauer’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2001 · most notably 13 Ill. 2d 443 - Bonczkowski v. Kucharski (1958), Kirk v. Beard (1961)
26 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 Seaver v. . Ransom · Rastetter v. . Hoenninger · Carmichael v. Carmichael · Bower v. Daniel · Lewis v. Lewis
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When mutual wills are executed, pursuant to an oral contract and upon sufficient consideration, and one testator thereafter dies and the other takes under the deceased’s will, equity will specifically enforce the contract. * * “The rule of evidence to establish the existence of such parole agreement is that which applies to other cases * * * the existence of the contract and its terms must be proved by clear, convincing and satisfactory evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lindley v. Lindley““The fact that the defendant made a will in which her deceased husband’s son by a prior marriage was a beneficiary, is some evidence, though not conclusive, that such a contract was made.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lindley v. Lindley
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.