11 Cal. App. 348 - Sherman v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 1953
11 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 Long Beach City School District v. Dodge · Pacific Factor Co. v. Adler · Smith v. Newell · People v. Central Pacific Railroad · Patent Brick Co. v. Moore
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Being a penalty and containing an agreement inter partes , the plaintiff has his election to sue for the penalty or for the breach of the contract. In the latter event he is not limited in the amount of damages to the penalty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rhyne v. . Rhyne
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.