Shulman v. Moser’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2016
20 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 Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Hamler · Taylor v. Atchison · Thompson v. Sornberger · McGuirk v. Burry · Smith v. Hollenback
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court overruled an objection of the defendant to a question propounded to Victor Kanter as to whether he understood the contract, and he testified that he could only read a couple of the easy words at the top; that he had only been in the third reader; that the defendant said he must sign the papers, otherwise the building would not be taken good care of; that defendant said he could sign them at home and did not say he could not have them read to him, and that he signed the contract of his own free will. The witness had formerly been in business for himself running a tailor shop, and when the lease was made he owned two buildings, — the one on Franklin boulevard and the other on Wabansia avenue, — one containing twenty-”
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.