Shelby v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 1939
11 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.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is substantially stated in the petition and answer that Carter II. Harrison, the father of the two infant defendants, was, under the laws of the state of Illinois, appointed and qualified as their guardian; and although the proper record evidence of his appointment and qualification was not filed, in this case, until after the sale of the property to appellants, still the fact being established, the defect in their title, which might otherwise have existed, has been to that extent cured, and they have now no right to complain on that account. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baker v. Weaks
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.