Stevenson v. Mudgett’s Empirical Analysis
1839
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 1921 · most notably Ellison v. Georgia Railroad (1891), Doolittle v. McConnell (1918)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“So long as the cause of action is not changed, and the court can see that the identity of the cause of action is preserved, the particular allegations of the declaration may be changed and others superadded in order to cure imperfections and mistakes in the manner of stating the plaintiff's case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cahill v. Terrio
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.