Stickney v. Epstein’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2005 · most notably Young v. Masci (1933), Cogan v. Chase Manhattan Auto Financial Corp. (2005)
2 federal appellate · 38 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 Birch v. Abercrombie · Daily v. Maxwell · Stowe v. Morris · Doran v. Thomsen · Smith v. Jordan
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when a paterfamilias maintains an automobile for the pleasure, use and convenience of his family and in pursuance of such purpose authorizes members of his family to use it for such purpose, he by so doing makes such pleasure uses his affair, and constitutes members of the family so operating the car his agents engaged in the prosecution of his affairs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dibble v. Wolff
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.