Shields v. Hightower’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 1957 · most notably Shields v. Pepper (1928), McCary v. Crumpton (1955)
25 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 Shields v. Hightower · Yarbrough v. Hightower
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever the equity of a bill, complaint or petition has been tested and upheld by the Supreme Court on an appeal from any interlocutory order, judgment, or decree, no other appeal can be taken from any subsequent interlocutory order, judgment or decree; but the rulings of the trial court on any such interlocutory orders, judgments or decrees may be reviewed by the Supreme Court on appeal from the final judgment or decree.””
2 later decisions 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.