Jennings v. Sheldon’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1917
6 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 Watson v. Stever
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was clearly shown that the Dean suit was brought to recover for the value of the stone, and that Sheldon assumed the defense of it. It was immaterial that the suit was in assumpsit. It may be that the circumstances of the taking of the stone were such that assumpsit could not have been supported if objection had been made (Watson v. Stever, 25 Mich. 386 ); but the parties were not bound to take that objection, and the title could as well be tried in an action of assumpsit as in one of trespass or trover.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McDonald v. Young
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.