Shields v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2024
7 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 Winegar v. Froerer Corp. · Atlas Corp. v. Clovis National Bank · State v. Brown · Morris v. Sykes · Fitzgerald v. Corbett
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“executed substantially contemporaneously and are clearly interrelated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Tender is excused where it is plain and clear that a tender, if made, would be idle ceremony and of no avail ... Additionally, where the unreasonable conduct of the obligee would make an actual tender a fruitless gesture, an offer to comply with the terms of the contract by the obligor is sufficient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If a demand for a larger sum is so made that it amounts to an announcement that it is useless to tender a smaller sum, it dispenses with the tender requirement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.