Shields v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 1973
4 federal appellate · 8 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 Taylor v. Robertson Petroleum Co. · Merchant v. Foreman · Wendler v. City of Great Bend · Beneke v. Bankers Mortgage Co. · Baron v. Lyman
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule that upon the reoission of a contract for the purchase of a chattel the parties must be placed in statu quo does not require, in all cases, that an absolute and literal restoration of the parties to their former condition shall be had, but it will be sufficient if such restoration be made as is reasonably possible, and such as the merits of the case demand.” (Syl. 3.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.