Schumaker v. Sommer’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
March 2001
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Loonan Lumber Company v. Wannamaker · 386 F. Supp. 618 - Schumaker v. Sommer
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where no damages are sought against the state and plaintiff seeks to impose liability on defendants `solely for their personal and individual negligence' the state is not the real party in interest,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kruger v. Wilson
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.