Shakespeare v. Alba’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 1987 · most notably Prestwood v. Carlton (1909), Formby v. Williams (1919)
2 federal appellate · 33 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 Comer v. Sheehan · Warren v. Wagner · Cooper v. Hornsby · Heflin v. Milton · Heflin v. Bingham
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The facts show that the lessee was placed in possession of the premises under the lease, and paid many of the monthly installments of rent, which was nothing more nor less than the purchase money for his five-year leasehold estate, which had been agreed to be granted him. The case is one which is obviously rescued from the influence of the Statute of Frauds by these attendant facts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lovoy v. Ratliff
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.