Sharkey v. Skilton’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 7 district · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably Mingachos v. CBS, Inc. (1985), Suarez v. Dickmont Plastics Corp. (1994)
7 federal appellate · 7 district · 86 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. Hedges · Farrell v. Waterbury Horse R. R. Co. · Monroe v. Hartford Street Railway Co. · Birmingham Railway & Electric Co. v. Bowers · Parker v. Griswold
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“falls far short of alleging that the harm which actually resulted was within the contemplation of the wrongdoer.”
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.