Shoup v. Waits’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 1985 · most notably Plantation Key Developers, Inc. v. Colonial Mortgage Co. of Indiana, Inc. (1979), Brite, Et Vir v. Orange Belt Securities Co. (1938)
2 federal appellate · 32 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 Oil Co. v. Van Etten · Geiger v. Henry · Glass v. Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although interest upon the amount found to be due by the jury, from the due date to the date of the verdict, is allowable as an element of damage, like all other elements of damage it must be ascertained by the jury and assessed in the verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““We, the jury, find for the plaintiffs and assess their damages at $542.62.””
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.