Sheldon v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently September 1973 · most notably Autio v. Miller (1932), 136 Cal. App. 2d 415 - Kalfus v. Fraze (1955)
68 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 Scott v. San Bernardino Valley Traction Co. · Raymond v. Hill · Niosi v. Empire Steam Laundry · Peterson v. . Ballantine Sons
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The ordinance is to be reasonably construed. Its terms have no reference to the right of chauffeurs, in congested districts of the city where the parking area is limited and the vacant spaces in that area even more limited, to back their automobiles into such a limited space, and it requires little knowledge of the operation of such vehicles to know that such backing is in many instances the only method by which the machine can be worked into the space and up to the curb of the street.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blake v. Marinelli
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.