Sheehy v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2001 · most notably Lloyd v. Board of Supervisors of Elections (2001), Reyes v. Prince George's County (1977)
26 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 Hodson v. Nelson
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“within 250' yards of the dividing line of any property owned by him and the adjoining property bordering on said waters . . . unless with the consent of the adjoining landowner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wampler v. Lecompte
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.