Sheffield v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
March 1958
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Williams v. Williams · Walk v. Barrett · Walker v. Eller · Gallup v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. · McKie v. McClanahan
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * # .This court has many times announced the rule that in order to establish a contract, of the nature present here, the burden is on the one attempting to establish the contract, and that it is not sufficient that he establish it by a preponderance of the testimony, but that he must go further and establish the contract by evidence so clear, satisfactory and convincing as to be substantially beyond a reasonable doubt. * # 5”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Merrell v. Smith
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.