Schmidt v. Schmidt’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2021
16 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 Williams County Social Services Board v. Falcon · Matter of Estate of Starcher · Matter of Estate of Stuckle · Zimbelman v. Loh · Haugland v. City of Bismarck
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Thus, in an unsupervised probate, an order settling all claims of one claimant is final, even if there are pending claims by other claimants.' " In re Estate of Eggl , 2010 ND 104 , ¶ 7, 783 N.W.2d 36 (quoting Schmidt v. Schmidt , 540 N.W.2d 605 , 607 (N.D. 1995) ). However, supervised administration "is a single in rem proceeding to secure complete administration and settlement of a decedent's estate under the continuing authority of the court which extends until entry of an order approving distribution of the estate and discharging the personal representative, or other order terminating the proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Because each proceeding in an unsupervised probate is considered independent of other proceedings involving the same estate, there need be finality only as to that proceeding, not the entire estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.