Shinglemeyer v. Wright.’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably 350 Pa. Super. 68 - Baker v. Lafayette College (1986), Lyle v. Waddle (1945)
1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Railroad v. Delaney · Sylvis v. Miller · Heller v. Howard · Irish-American Bank v. Bader · Cristman v. Cristman
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court was in error in admitting the above letter and the statements made by defendant to the two detectives High and Larkins in regard to the larceny of his wheel. These were privileged communications. They were introduced and admitted for the purpose of showing malice. The trial judge was in doubt as to their competency, but finally admitted them. Privileged communications cannot be used for that purpose. Defendant’s property was stolen, and it was not only his privilege and right, but his duty, to give to the detectives, who, in this case, were specially appointed for the purpose, all information he had, and, if he had suspicions of any person, to state who the person was, and the reasons for suspecting him. Such communications are made in the strictest confidence, and are as sacred, in the eye of the law, as the communications between client and lawyer, or patient and physician. To be evidence of malice, these communications must in themselves have been malicious, and would, therefore, form the basis themselves for an action for slander. If this be the law, no person would be safe from prosecution in communicating to police officers, whose duty it is to examine into the case and hunt for the criminal, his suspicions, or statements which might tend to implicate a person. Public policy forbids the adoption of such a rule. These detectives were under legal, as well as moral, obligations to keep these communications secret. ' They were not made for publication, and the of”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Stivers v. Allen · People v. Pratt
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.