Sheldon v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2011 · most notably American Federation of Labor v. Watson (1946), 288 So. 2d 490 - Bernhardt v. State (1974)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 95 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Old Colony Trust Co. v. Commissioner · David Muskrat v. · Willing v. Chicago Auditorium Ass'n · Liberty Warehouse Co. v. Grannis · Kariher's Petition (No. 1)
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Declaratory decrees; power given court to render in certain cases. — Any person or corporation claiming to be interested under a deed, will, contract in writing, or other instrument in writing, may apply by bill in chancery to any court in this State having equity jurisdiction for the determination of any question of construction arising under the instrument and for a declaration of the rights of the person or corporation interested, whether or not further relief is or could be claimed, and such declaration shall háve the force of a final decree in chancery.” . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lippman v. Shapiro“(1) Where it would serve no useful purpose; (2) where special tribunals have been provided to handle specified controversies ; (3) where the facts sought to be litigated were hypothetical, presented a `made case,' or were uncertain of occurrence; (4) the question raised must be real and not theoretical, and the person raising it must have a bona fide interest in it; and (5) there must be a defender with a bona fide right to defend.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is inhibitory of injury. `Within the sphere of anticipatory and preventive justice its use should be extended, its scope kept wide and liberal, and its boundaries elastic. But it does not fit every occasion and it does not call for the scrapping of the balance of the system of remedies and actions.'”
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.