Wolther v. Schaarschmidt’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably Mehaffy, Rider, Windholz & Wilson v. Central Bank Denver, N.A. (1995), Griffin Plumbing & Heating Co. v. Jordan, Jones & Goulding, Inc. (1995)
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 26 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 Ultramares Corp. v. Touche · H. Rosenblum, Inc. v. Adler · Pomeroy v. Waitkus · Ginter v. Palmer & Co. · Larsen v. United Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n of Des Moines
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally, the issue of a party's intent is a question of fact and is not an appropriate issue for summary disposition.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[If] the moving party's proof does not itself demonstrate the lack of a genuine factual issue, summary judgment is inappropriate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People ex rel. S.N.
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.