Sheets v. Selden's Lessee’s Empirical Analysis
69 U.S. 177 · 1864
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 17 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 164 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably Sloan Shipyards Corporation v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation (1922), Guaranty Trust & Safe Deposit Co. v. Green Cove Springs & Melrose Railroad (1891)
47 federal appellate · 17 district · 45 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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 Hodgson v. Dexter · Case v. Brown · Coddington v. Davis
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 164 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tbo rent becoming due on tbo first of May, the one month from that time within which the payment was required to be made to prevent a forfeiture expired on the 1st day of dune following. In the computation of the time the day upon which the rent became due was to be excluded. The general current oí the modern authorities on the interpretation of contracts, * * * when time is to be computed from a particular day or a particular event, as ■when an act is to be performed within a specified period from or after a day named, is to exclude the day thus designated, and to include the last day oi. the specified period.””
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * And it may be stated generally that when a deed is executed, or a contract is made on behalf of a state by a public officer duly authorized and this fact appears upon the face of the instrument, it is the deed or contract of the state, nowithstanding that the officer may be described as one of the parties, and may have affixed his individual name and seal. In such cases the state alone is bound by the deed or contract, and can alone claim its benefits.”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if any installment should remain unpaid for one month from the time it should become due”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.