Sheppard v. Zapp’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 1973
6 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 Compton v. Elliott · Henderson Grain Co. v. Russ · Jefferies v. Dunklin · International & Great Northern Railway Co v. Anderson County · International & G. N. Ry. Co. v. Anderson County
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This suit cannot properly be regarded as one based upon a trespass committed in Freestone county for the reason no redress is sought for the trespass. The primary and ultimate purpose of the suit as disclosed by the petition, evidence and judgment entered is to obtain an injunction . . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burton v. Rogers
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.