Schaffer v. Spicer’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2001
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 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 Yi Au Lau v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service · Wilson v. Great Northern Railway Company · 197 Pa. Super. 79 - ALEXANDER v. Knight · Bachman v. Mejias · 243 F. Supp. 793 - Hammonds v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Company
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * [W]e are under an obligation which we have recognized over and over again, as have the courts in all of the states of this land, and that duty lies in doing the very best we can to see that the rights of young children are properly protected. Their welfare comes first.” Schaffer v. Spicer, S.D., 215 N.W.2d 134 at 141 (dissenting opinion).”
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.