Long v. Shepard’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 1960 · most notably Wilson Motor Co. v. Dunn (1928), Schuber v. McDuffee (1917)
30 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 Whiteacre v. Nichols · St. Louis S. F. R. Co. v. Cake · Savings Bank of San Diego County v. Burns · Wey v. City Bank of Hobart · Grimes v. Cullison
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In all actions, allegations of the execution of written instruments and indorsements thereon of the existence of a corporation or partnership, or of any appointment of authority, or the correctness of any account duly verified by the affidavit of the party, his agent or attorney, shall be taken as true unless the denial of the same be verified by the affidavit of the party, his agent or attorney.””
2 later decisions 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.