Shellman v. Shellman’s Empirical Analysis
95 F.2d 108 · 1938
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently June 1980 · most notably Yanish v. Barber (1956), Lasalle Extension University v. Federal Trade Commission (1980)
44 federal appellate · 15 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 Thayer v. Thayer · Burns v. Bastien · Linde Air Products Co. v. Morse Dry Dock & Repair Co. · Shufeldt v. Shufeldt · Young v. Wyatt
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Moore's Federal Practice (2d Ed.) Vol. 5, states at p. 2662, `The failure of the trial court to comply with Rule 52, while characterized as a dereliction of duty does not demand a reversal "if a full understanding of the question presented may be had without the aid of separate findings,”
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.