Shattuck v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2007 · most notably Kadane v. Clark (1940), Cashin v. Pliter (1912)
2 federal appellate · 22 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 Miller v. Clark · Cullen v. O'Hara · O'Donnell v. Sweeney · Niagara Falls Brewing Co. v. Wall · Parks v. Crippin-Norris
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a well-settled principle of law that all contracts which are founded on an act prohibited by a statute under a penalty are void, although not expressly declared to be so.” In re Reidy’s Estate, 164 Mich. 167 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Cashin v. Pliter · Groves v. Jones
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.