Schnee v. Schnee’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2017
7 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 Lord v. Lord · Sutton v. Nichols · Ex parte Smythe v. Irick
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All the courts guard the interests of infants, and that they may, by next friends, institute proceedings in the courts for the enforcement of their rights or the protection of their interests, is the universal practice, and one which may be regarded as part of the common law.” (p. 646.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Guy v. Hansow
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.