Shannon v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1922
6 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have found no grounds for the assertion that any court has a general and inherent power to remove from itself to another court any cause pending in it. That power can only be given by statute, and the statute must be complied with.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Buchanan v. Crow
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.