Schultz v. Christopher’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 1992 · most notably 81 Wash. 2d 183 - Freehe v. Freehe (1972), 41 Wash. 2d 642 - Borst v. Borst (1952)
1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Jessie Thompson v. Charles N Thompson · Webster v. Webster
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the condition of the appellant, flowing from the alleged tort, was a matter to be taken into consideration, and the presumption is that it was taken into consideration by the court in the distribution of the property made in the decree of divorce. It would be against public policy to permit multifarious actions concerning the property rights of the husband and wife after divorce which were in existence during coverture.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“At the common law there was a unity between husband and wife, and ... for all practical purposes, the husband was the unit. The legal rights of the wife were merged in the husband, and were subject to the direction and control of the husband, but neither husband nor wife could sue the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“another conclusive reason why this demurrer should have been sustained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.