Shepard v. Chappell’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 1965
17 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 Steele v. Central of Georgia Railway Co. · William Hester Marble Co. v. Walton · Savannah Trust Co. v. National Bank · 27 Ga. App. 444 - Hogan v. Gilbert · McKenzie's Sons & Co. v. Consolidated Lumber 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The testimony of a party who offers himself as a witness in his own behalf is to be construed most strongly against him, when it is self- contradictory, vague, or equivocal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hill v. Agnew
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.