Sheffield v. Balmer’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 1913
7 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ St. Louis, November 24, 1868. “We agree to pay Sheffield, Eaton & Stone, publishers St. Louis Home Journal, five dollars per issue for publishing a hundred (1-2 column) line advertisement for us in their weekly (Sunday) edition, every Sunday, for one year. Said advertisement to be changed at our option. “ Balmer & Weber.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sheffield v. Balmer
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.