Sheerin v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
240 F.2d 797 · 1957
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 1993 · most notably 436 F. Supp. 409 - Perlmuter Printing Co. v. Strome, Inc. (1976), 271 Cal. App. 2d 675 - Lesser Towers, Inc. v. Roscoe-Ajax Construction Co. (1969)
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 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 Lauritzen v. Larsen · Johnson v. Stevenson · Alaska Packers Ass'n v. Industrial Accident Commission · Pacific Employers Ins Co v. Industrial Accident Commission of California · Bradford Elec. Light Co. v. Clapper
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he validity and construction of a contract with respect to the rights and obligations created thereby are governed by the law of the place where the contract is made. Id. at 798-99 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.