Sheets v. Thomann’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2015
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 City of St. Louis v. Butler Co. · Dorrance v. Dorrance · Lins v. Lenhardt · City of St. Louis v. Friedman · Campbell v. Webb
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.
““4. Plaintiff and all other railroad corporations within the purview of Public Service Commission Law mentioned above constitute a class having joint, common, or several rights with a common question of law or fact, involved in the justiciable issue here in question; and, said class being too numerous and otherwise impracticable to bring all individually before the Court herein, plaintiff is such one of said class as will fairly insure adequate representation of all in said respects. Plaintiff, accordingly, sues, respectively, in its individual capacity, and in the above-mentioned capacity of class-representative.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“cardinal principle of jurisprudence that one is not bound by a judgment in personam entered in litigation to which he was not designated as a party or made a party by service of process or entry of appearance.”
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.