Sharp v. Schmidt & Zeigler’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 1961 · most notably Commercial Credit Corp. v. Smith (1945), Harding v. Pearson (1932)
1 federal appellate · 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.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has always been the rule that, when a judgment is sought to be reopened for any cause in order to permit a defense to be made. which the defendant was prevented from proving upon the trial in which the judgment was obtained, the nature of the defense must be shown to the court.””
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.