Shanks v. Klein’s Empirical Analysis
104 U.S. 18 · 1881
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 7 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1981 · most notably Sun Printing Publishing Association v. William L Moore (1902), Peters v. Bain (1890)
8 federal appellate · 7 district · 35 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 Andrews' Heirs v. Brown's Adm'r · Dupuy v. Leavenworth · Markham v. Merrett
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is an equitable right accompanied by an equitable title. It is an interest in the property which equity courts will recognize and support. What is that right? Not only that the court will, when necessary, see that the real estate so situated is appropriated to the satisfaction of the partnership debts, but that for that purpose, and to that extent, it shall be treated as personal property of the partnership, and like other personal property pass under the control of the surviving partner. This control extends to the right to sell it, or so much of it as may he necessary to pay the partnership debts, or to satisfy the just claims of the surviving partner.””
2 later decisions 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.