Heller v. Shapiro’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 2001 · most notably 107 Wis. 2d 400 - Loy v. Bunderson (1982), Anderson v. Wyoming Development Co. (1944)
1 federal appellate · 42 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Hodges v. Hamblen County · Gordon v. Kentucky Midland Coal Co. · Rosenberg v. Village of Whitefish Bay · Newsum v. Interstate Realty Co. · 98 N.J. Eq. 85 - Tanner v. Boynton Lumber Co.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We construe the declaratory-relief statute, sec. 269.56, as only justifying a declaration of rights upon an existing state of facts, not one upon a state of facts that may or may not arise in the future. So far as the statute has heretofore been invoked in cases that have reached this court, an existing state of facts has been the basis of the declaration or adjudication.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““From these decisions we gather that the statute deals with present rights only; that courts-will not declare rights until they have become fixed under an existing state of facts . . . ; they will not determine future rights in anticipation of an event that may never happen.””
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.