Sheldon v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2024
19 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 Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. Carroll, Brough, Robinson & Humphrey · Morford v. Territory of Oklahoma · Oklahoma Transportation Co. v. Lewis · State Ex Rel. Williams v. Batson · 23 Okla. Crim. 36 - Layne v. State
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[A] judge de. facto is one acting'with color of right, and who is exercising the judicial functions he assumes.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the acts of a de facto officer are as binding as those of a de jure officer. This principle is well recognized and applies as thoroughly to the office of judge as it does to other public offices .”
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.