Shriver v. . Shriver’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently May 1938 · most notably Fleming v. . Burnham (1885), 8 E.H. Smith 299 - Heller v. . Cohen (1897)
72 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Miner v. . Beekman · Phyfe v. Riley · Watson & Polhemus v. Spence · Quincy v. Foot
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A title may be doubtful, which is to say unmarketable, because of the uncertainty of some matter of fact appearing in the course of the deduction of it.” (p. 584.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beeler v. Sims
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.