Sherman v. Sipper’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 139 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 157 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably S.V. v. R.V. (1996), Woods v. William M. Mercer, Inc. (1988)
12 federal appellate · 139 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 Bass v. James · Oldham v. Medearis · Gilbough v. Runge · 34 Tex. Civ. App. 455 - Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Ware & Walker · Carver 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 157 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Defendants in error made no attempt, either by pleadings or by proof, to bring their case within this rule. They relied-upon the failure to discover such defect, without attempting to show facts excusing their failure to discover such defect; and no attempt is made to show that if they had used reasonable diligence they could not have discovered their cause of action.” “ * * * Before he is entitled to recover in this case, he must bring himself within the well-defined rules above stated, long established by the decisions of this court. This was not done.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[ W]here a person has a right in property, and he claims fraudulent statements were made concerning the title to such property, when the records relating to such title are open to him he must exercise reasonable diligence to discover such defect; and if by the exercise of such diligence he could have discovered such defect and would have known of his right, he is held to have known it, and limitation [sic ] will run against his claim from the time he could have made such discovery by the exercise of ordinary diligence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The rule has long prevailed in this State that fraud will prevent the running of a statute of limitation only until such time as the fraud is discovered, or by the exercise of reasonable diligence it might have been discovered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blum v. Elkins
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.