Sharp v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently January 2008 · most notably 302 So. 2d 404 - Blackhawk Heat. & P. Co., Inc. v. Data Lease Fin. Corp. (1974), Cox v. CSX Intermodal, Inc. (1999)
2 federal appellate · 31 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 United States v. Behan · Lovell v. St. Louis Mutual Life Insurance · Anvil Mining Co. v. Humble · Gravette v. Turner · Anvil Min Co v. Humble
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A contract includes not only the things written, but also terms and matters which, though not actually expressed, are implied by law, and these are as binding as the terms which are actually written or spoken.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“what the law implies, from the relation of parties created by an express agreement is as much a part of the contract as that which is expressed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.