Sheldon v. Hawes’s Empirical Analysis
1867
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 1913
4 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.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The words alleged to have been interpolated are in a different ink from the rest of the note, and are not written in the manner usually to be expected in such papers. The alteration, being so peculiar in appearance, and being favorable to the complainant by adding three per cent, to the interest, creates sufficient ground of doubt to require some explanation. And unless, upon a review of the whole testimony, it produces a belief in the genuineness of the instrument as altered, of course complainant could not claim to recover upon it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.