Shuey Executor v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
92 U.S. 73 · 1875
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2019 · most notably Chae Chan Ping v. United States (1889), Zwolanek v. Baker Manufacturing Co. (1912)
5 federal appellate · 26 state decisions — followed in 13 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 The Floyd Acceptances · The Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad Company v. James Stimpson · James Williams v. The United States · Fitch v. . Snedaker
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is found as a fact that the arrest was not made by the claimant, through tiie discovery and arrest were due entirely to the disclosures made by him. The plain meaning of this is that Surratt’s apprehension was a consequence of the disclosures made. But the consequence of a man’s act are not his acts. Between the consequence and thé disclosure that leads to it there may be, and in this case there were, intermediate agencies. Other persons than the claimant made the arrest — persons who were not his agents.” etc.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McClaughry v. King
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.