Schulte v. Schulte’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2021
17 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 Van Fossen v. Babcock & Wilcox Co. · State v. Boston · State v. Frazier · Board of Commissioners v. City of Lebanon
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]very person is competent to be a witness except: (A) Those of unsound mind, and children under ten years of age, who appear incapable of receiving just impressions of the facts and transactions respecting which they are examined, or of relating them truly.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Remy · State v. Said“A trial court is not required, while making a competency determination, to make express findings on the considerations outlined in Frazier . Such a requirement would unduly burden our trial courts with unnecessary formality. Instead, the trial court is merely required to consider the Frazier factors while making the competency determination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Remy“When the trial court asked why the child stated that her mother did not tell her to come to the hearing, the child said,”
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.