Shutte v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
82 U.S. 151 · 1872
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 6 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably United States v. Mezzanatto (1995), Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York v. Elize Maud Hill E C (1904)
31 federal appellate · 6 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Buddicum v. Kirk
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] party may waive any provision, either of a contract or of a statute, intended for his benefit”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"At the trial in the court below, the plaintiff offered to read in evidence the deposition of William Underwood, which had been taken in the cause, with the certificate annexed thereto, respecting the time, place and manner of taking it, and the court permitted the deposition to be read, though the defendant objected and excepted to such, permission. The decision of the court admitting the deposition is the first error assigned. “The grounds of objection are stated specifically in the record. They are three in number. The first is that the deposition was not taken and certified by an officer authorized by the acts of Congress to take and certify a deposition, so that it may be read in evidence. The second is that it was taken without any affidavit of the cause or reason for taking it, and without any commission authorizing it. The third objection is that it was neither certified nor proved that the witness had been sworn to testify to the whole truth. No other reason for opposition to the reception of the deposition in evidence was stated in the court below, and no others are urged in this court. ’ ’ “It is to be observed that the objections are all formal rather than substantial. Still they are quite sufficient to require the rejection of the deposition, if there is nothing in the case to countervail their effect. The act of Congress of September 24, 1789 (1 Stat. at L. 88, sec. 30), authorizes the deposition of an ancient, or any infirm person (among others), to be taken de”
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.