State Ex Rel. Shufeldt v. Armijo’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably American Public Gas Ass'n v. Federal Power Commission (1977), 64 Wis. 2d 241 - Pure Milk Products Cooperative v. National Farmers Organization (1974)
8 federal appellate · 34 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 State Ex Rel. Hannah v. Armijo · State ex rel. Lefebvre v. Clifford · State Ex Rel. Simpson v. Armijo · State Ex Rel. Johnson v. Circuit Court · State ex rel. Davis v. Superior Court
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We cannot permit a litigant to test the mind of a trial judge like a boy testing the temperature of water in the pool with his toe, and if found to his liking, decides to take a plunge.”
9 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.