Shellhart v. Axford’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 1996
2 federal appellate · 15 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 Goodman v. Newzona Investment Co. · Witzel v. Witzel · Clayton Oil Company v. Shidler
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the option granted to [plaintiff] was an option “to purchase” real estate “for the sum of $12,000.00.” When these terms are given meaning and effect, it becomes clear the intent of the parties was for payment of the purchase price to be a necessary part of the “exercise” of the option.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mills v. Brody“[T]he fundamental canon of construction applicable to contracts generally is the ascertainment of the intention of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.