Schlueter v. Schlueter’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Vickery v. Vickery (1999), Beard v. Beard (2001)
2 federal appellate · 64 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin))
Relationships
Relies on Transportation Insurance Co. v. Moriel · Twyman v. Twyman · International Bankers Life Insurance Co. v. Holloway · Murff v. Murff · Amoco Production Co. v. Alexander
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]o independent cause of action exists in Texas to recover separate damages when the wrongful act defrauded the community estate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'recovery of punitive damages requires a finding of an independent tort with accompanying actual damages.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no independent tort cause of action for wrongful disposition by a spouse of community assets”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fuentes v. Zaragoza
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.