Nelson v. Schoonover’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 1975 · most notably Yeager v. Yeager (1942), Lewis v. Lewis (1919)
35 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 Bethany Hospital Co. v. Philippi · Dillon v. Gray · Anding v. Davis · Bless v. Blizzard · Whiton v. Whiton
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statute gives funeral expenses priority over all other demands against the estate of the decedent. (Gen. Stat. 1909, § 3515.) ‘The expense of erecting a suitable monument over the grave of deceased is to be classed among the funeral expenses.’ (4 Words & Phrases, p. 3008.)” (p.394.)”
1 later decision 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.