Little v. Shields’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1956
2 federal appellate · 6 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 Eylar v. Eylar · Paris Grocer Co. v. W.H. Burks · Kempner v. Huddleston · Eastham v. Hunter · Graves v. Kinney
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It makes no difference that the first of the two vendor's liens was in fact mature at the time defendants in error induced plaintiff to take it up, for the doctrine that a purchaser after maturity takes subject to all defenses applies only to cases where the facts do not create an estoppel. Farmers' State Bank v. Welch (Tex.Civ.App.) 279 S.W. 481 ; Bernstein v. Hibbs (Tex.Civ.App.) 284 S.W. 234 ; Heidenheimer v. Stewart, 65 Tex. 321 .”
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.