Steele v. General Baking Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 1981
14 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 Refior v. Lansing Drop Forge Co. · Refior v. Lansing Drop Forge Co. · 15 App. D.C. 532 - Parsons v. Hill · Neel v. Barbra · Bowen v. Wilson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A party should not be forced to defend himself against a claim which arose more than three years ago, when with a little effort on the plaintiff’s part the case could have been adjudicated within a few months. [Id. at 846.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Belcher v. Johnson
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.