Schoonover v. Schoonover’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 1993 · most notably 99 Cal. App. 2d 675 - Walker v. Calloway (1950), Smith v. Nyburg (1932)
7 federal appellate · 20 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 Baldwin v. Baldwin · Wooddell v. Allbrecht · Taylor v. Taylor · Sparks v. Bodensick
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where one has rendered personal services to another under an oral agreement for compensation by the devise of real estate, the contract may be enforced irrespective of the question of possession, where the services are of such a character that their money value cannot be satisfactorily estimated.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.