Shedd v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently October 2019 · most notably 82 Ill. 2d 40 - Joiner v. Benton Community Bank (1980), 177 Ill. 2d 267 - Cult Awareness Network v. Church of Scientology International (1997)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 40 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 Patterson v. Northern Trust Co. · Smith v. Michigan Buggy Co. · Patterson v. Northern Trust Co. · Patterson v. Northern Trust Co. · Johnson v. Northern Trust 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In this case the courts had repeatedly decided that the defendant had no grievance, and the substantial questions involved were finally and conclusively settled in 1907 [citation].” Shedd, 302 111. at 361.”
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.