Shellito v. GRIMSHAW’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2015
8 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 Simodejka v. Williams · Vaughan v. WOMELDORF
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It cannot be said that appellant is within the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth to institute suit on a •cause of action arising here, but not within the jurisdiction for service of process in another suit in the same county arising out of the same action.” (Italics supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fleck v. Fleck
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.