Shepherd v. Clements’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 1997 · most notably Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Alabama, Inc. v. Nielsen (1997), 126 W. Va. 858 - Laundry Co. v. Dunn Hospital (1944)
33 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 Cobb v. Malone · Stafford v. Colonial Mortgage & Bond Co. · Ewart Lumber Co. v. American Cement Plaster Co. · McMillon v. Skelton · Hood v. Pioneer Mining & Manufacturing 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would seem unreasonable that the lawmakers should require the reservation of an exception to review the judgment of a court in one county and should permit such review in another county without such exception”.”
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.