Shull v. Sexton’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Botticello v. Stefanovicz (1979), Ballow v. PHICO Insurance Co. (1994)
6 federal appellate · 49 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Trotter v. Lewis · Ullsperger v. Meyer · 133 N.J. Eq. 408 - Martindell v. Fiduciary Counsel, Inc. · N. E. D. Holding Co. v. McKinley · Northern Illinois Coal Corp. v. Cryder
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although a contract may be uncertain or incomplete in some respects, its specific performance may nevertheless be decreed where the uncertainty or incompleteness relates to matters which the law makes certain or complete by presumption, rule, or custom and usage. [See also authorities cited therein.] * * * But the Shulls point out that the contract thus created lacks any provision for the time of performance. Courts have applied the doctrine of performance within a reasonable time where the contract fails to specify the time for the discharge of obligations. [Citations omitted.] * * * Reasonable time is measured by the circumstances of the case.” [Citation omitted.]”
2 later decisions 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.