Shaffer v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Snodgrass v. Snodgrass (1924), Maynard v. Hustead (1939)
25 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 Nolan v. Otney · Emmons v. Harding · Johnson v. Craig · Young v. McWilliams · Clark v. Akers
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule is that when the grantee is in possession of a deed the presumption is that it was delivered at the date of the execution.” ,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Walden v. Potts · PEVETO v. PEVETO““The presumption that a person will accept a purely unqualified gift is so strong that the courts have quite generally manifested a disposition to act upon such presumption as a working rule for the operation of such conveyances.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Widener v. Miller
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.