Shutter v. Fudge’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2004
12 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 MacGreal v. Taylor · Chandler v. Simmons · Green v. . Green · Englebert v. Troxell · Price v. Furman
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . the law does not forbid an infant to contract,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“actions brought by the infant to recover money or property parted with by him under a contract which he seeks to rescind and so involving the maxim that the infant is premitted to use his privilege as a shield but not as a sword, and other equitable considerations which are not equally applicable where infancy is interposed as a defense to an action by the adverse party, based upon a contract made by the infant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.