Shaw v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently November 1984 · most notably Palmer Corporation of Louisiana v. Moore (1930), Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Company v. Goslin (1971)
6 federal appellate · 23 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 Greene v. Louisville & Interurban Railroad · Texas Company v. W.H. Daugherty · Stanley v. Supervisors of Albany · Stanley v. Board of Sup'rs of the County of Albany · Samuel Raymond v. Chicago Union Traction Company
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“more like a sale of an undivided interest in the land than like the imposing of a mortgage or an ordinary lease upon the land.”
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.