Shannon v. Wisdom’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably Jones v. Lanier (1916), Sadler v. Radcliff (1927)
2 federal appellate · 37 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 Jenkins v. Harrison · Randall v. Howard · Nelson v. Shelby Manufacturing & Improvement Co. · Howard v. East Tenn., Va. & Ga. Railroad · Bolling v. Munchus
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If it is necessary to resort to oral evidence of the intention of the parties as to the lands bargained for, the writing is not sufficient, and the statute is not complied with.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Contracts may be so uncertain as to parties or subject-matter as to be incapable of specific performance, or to support an action for damages for breach thereof.”
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.