Shaw v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently August 1998 · most notably Boudreau v. Baughman (1988), Gutierrez v. Collins (1979)
15 federal appellate · 47 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Young v. Masci · Jessie Thompson v. Charles N Thompson · Haumschild v. Continental Casualty Co. · Charnock v. . Taylor · Childress v. Johnson Motor Lines, Inc.
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“claimant's right to recover and the amount which may be recovered for personal injuries must be determined by the law of the state where the injuries were sustained; if no right of action exists there, the injured party has none which can be enforced elsewhere.”
7 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.