Shafer v. Shafer’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 1991
13 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 Spitze v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · Levering v. Levering · Bantz v. Bantz · Edelen v. Edelen · Snively v. Beavans
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Court below had no jurisdiction to inquire into their consideration, nor to pass upon or determine their validity. That duty belongs to another jurisdiction, and was no part of the jurisdiction which the Court below sought to exercise.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kaouris v. Kaouris
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.