Sharrock v. Dell Buick-Cadillac, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably State v. Schmid (1980), United States v. Rahme (1987)
7 federal appellate · 24 state decisions — followed in 10 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hat is not to say, of course, that the due process clause of the State Constitution eliminates the necessity of any State involvement in the objected to activity. Rather, the absence of any express State action language simply provides a basis to apply a more flexible State involvement requirement than is currently being imposed by the Supreme Court with respect to the Federal provision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“New York has so entwined itself into the [conduct] as to constitute sufficient and meaningful State participation____” Id. 9 . Plaintiff never stated which U.C.C. provision defendant purportedly acted under. The Jefferds case holds that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“entwin[ing] itself into the debtor-creditor relationship arising out of otherwise regular consumer transactions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.