Shaffer v. Pickrell’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently June 1915
2 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.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A fair construction of these provisions is that the hogs, at the execution ol 1lio chattel mortgage, were owned by D. B. Mott, the mortgagor; that they were then in Franklin county, in this state, and were also in the possession of said Mott, in said county. * * * The suggestion that Mott may have had 500 or 5,000 hogs of the same description in Franklin county, from aught that, appears in the mortgage or in the record, is without particular force, as the canon of construction is to solve the doubts, if any exist, in favor, rather than against, tins validity of a written instrument; and we have no right to imagine facts to exist in the record to invalidate and destroy the chattel mortgage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alferitz v. Ingalls
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.