Shoptaw v. Sewell’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 1959
7 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 Waller v. Dansby · Jordan v. Bank of Morrilton · Wright v. Lake · Walker-Lucas-Hudson Oil Company v. Hudson · Holcomb v. American Surety Company
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our code drew a marked line of distinction between an entire failure to state any cause of action or defense on one side which is to be taken advantage of by demurrer and the statement of a cause of action or defense in an insufficient, uncertain or imperfect manner, which is to”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wright v. Husband
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.