Shaw v. Railroad Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “No statute is to be construed as altering the common law, farther than its words import.”
• “No statute is to be construed as altering the common law further than its words import.”
• \No statute is to be construed as altering the common law further than its words import.\
• “No statute is to be construed as altering the common law, farther than its words import. It is not to be construed as making any innovation upon the common law which it does not fairly express.”
• “[T]he thief acquired no title and could not transfer good title to others regardless of their good faith and ignorance of the theft.”
• \[A statute] is not to be construed as making any innovation upon the common law which it does not fairly express.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

173 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Fitzgerald v. Advanced Spine Fixation Systems, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1999-08-26· cited 1,058×
• Montclair v. Ramsdell
  Supreme Court· 1883-03-18· cited 485×
• Sims v. Sims
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1996-12-06· cited 318×
• Robert C. Herd & Co. v. Krawill MacHinery Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1959-04-20· cited 250×
• Norton v. Larney
  Supreme Court· 1925-01-05· cited 230×
• Buckman v. People Express, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-09-01· cited 216×
• Littlejohn v. BIC Corp.
  Third Circuit· 1988-07-06· cited 200×
• O'KEEFFE v. Snyder
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1980-07-17· cited 170×
• Oswin v. Shaw
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1992-07-30· cited 155×
• Norfolk Redevelopment & Housing Authority v. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. of Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1983-11-01· cited 153×
• Helmick v. Cincinnati Word Processing, Inc.
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1989-08-23· cited 151×
• District of Columbia v. Thompson
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1991-06-17· cited 126×
• State v. Kish
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-04-27· cited 121×
• Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1984-08-16· cited 118×
• Seals v. Hickey
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-03-02· cited 114×
• Monteville v. Terrebonne Par. Con. Gov't
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1990-09-13· cited 105×
• Griffin v. Acacia Life Insurance
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2007-05-24· cited 89×
• Dell v. Department of Employment Services
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1985-09-30· cited 88×
• Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Harold
  Supreme Court· 1916-06-05· cited 86×
• United States v. Lennard L. Mead
  Ninth Circuit· 1970-03-24· cited 85×

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• Matthews v. Poythress
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1848-02-15· cited 19×