Sheehy v. Shinn’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 1998
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 Cashman v. Root
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To give effect to the constitution it is as much the duty of the courts to see that it is not evaded as that it is not directly violated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parker v. Otis
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.