Schwartz v. Schwartz’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Terry v. Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution (1979), Connell v. Carl's Air Conditioning (1981)
2 district · 23 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 Jakobsen v. Massachusetts Port Authority · United States v. 47 Bottles, More or Less, Jenasol RJ Formula '60' · MBI Motor Co. v. Lotus/East, Inc. · Marschall v. City of Carson · Choate v. Ransom
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had raised the issue in his opening argument, [opposing counsel] had specifically referred to the matter as an issue in the case, . . . the factual SUPREME COURT OF NEVADA 26 (0) 1947A e issue had been explored in discovery, [and] no objection had been raised at trial to the admission of evidence relevant to the issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Since the averments of an affirmative defense are taken as denied or avoided, each element of the• defense must be affirmatively proved. The burden of proof clearly rests with the defendant.”
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.