Sheppard v. . Steele’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1997 · most notably The Robert W. Parsons (1903), State v. Manussier (1996)
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 35 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The claim here, is for labor upon the hull of a vessel, while in the. process of construction, before launching, while yet on the land. This is not a' maritime contract. It is one relating to a subject on the land, and it is to be performed on the land. The admiralty courts have no jurisdiction'for its enforcement. Foster v. The Richard Busteed, 100 Mass. 409 .”
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.