Shirts v. Irons’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1917
11 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 Aurora Fire Insurance v. Johnson · Judah v. Trustees of Vincennes University · Boyce's Administrator v. Smith's Administrator · Devol v. McIntosh · Shirts v. Irons
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ¥e think the true rule is, that where two new trials have been granted in the same cause to the same party, cither by the court below or by this court, exclusively for any of the reasons specified in section 352, another new trial cannot he granted to the same party in such cause for any of the reasons specified in said section; hut that this court may reverso a judgment for the erroneous rulings of the court below on the pleadings, or other matters which do not constitute reasons for a new trial, although such reversal may result in another trial in the court below upon the merits of the casé.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Charles v. Malott
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.