Shaw v. Harding’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Donahue v. Rodd Electrotype Co. of New England, Inc. (1975), Samia v. Central Oil Co. of Worcester (1959)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 42 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 Spiegel v. Beacon Participations, Inc. · American Circular Loom Co. v. Wilson · Little v. Phipps · Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. v. Gove · Sagalyn v. Meekins, Packard & Wheat 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an expense incurred by one, resulting in the creation of a fund for the general benefit of many other persons, ought not to be borne entirely by the one whose action has resulted in the realization of such a fund, and that it is equitable that a part of the expense should be paid out of the fund.”
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.