Pitte v. Shipley’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 1982
20 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Relationships
Relies on Fallon v. Butler · Sichel v. De Carrillo · Christy v. Dana · Ellis v. Polhemus
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a familiar principle of construction that a word repeatedly used in a statute will be presumed to bear the same construction throughout the statute, unless there is something to show that there is another meaning intended.” (Sutherland on Statutory Construction, sec. 255.) The Eevised Statutes were passed as a single act. My associates hold that in section 1401 the term”
2 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.