Shutts v. . Fingar’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1979 · most notably Pittsburgh-Westmoreland Coal Co. v. . Kerr (1917), Paine v. Central Vermont Railroad (1886)
2 district · 26 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 Parsell v. . Stryker · Clason v. Morris · Merritt v. . Todd · Trimble v. Thorne · Townsend v. . Whitney
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“settled law that a note payable on demand with interest is a continuing security against an endorser until actual demand.”
1 later decision 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.