R. E. Sheehan Co. v. Shuler’s Empirical Analysis
265 U.S. 371 · 1924
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 12 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1983 · most notably Crowell v. Benson (1932), Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Co. v. Phoenix Indemnity Co. (1930)
14 federal appellate · 12 district · 21 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 New York Central Railroad Company v. Sarah White · Mountain Timber Company v. State of Washington · Hodges v. Snyder · Matter of State Industrial Comm. v. . Newman
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ (1) That the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment does not require that this additional compensation be paid by the immediate employers of the employees to be benefited, nor prevent the legislature from providing for its payment out of general funds created as above described. [Citation.] “(2) The arrangement does not conflict with the equal protection clause.” (S. B. Sheehan Co. v. Shuler (1924), 265 U.S. 371 [ 44 S.Ct. 548 , 68 L.Ed. 1061 ], as summarized in headnote.)”
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.