Stewart v. Lansing’s Empirical Analysis
104 U.S. 505 · 1881
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 14 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1985 · most notably Wisconsin v. Pelican Insurance (1888), Armstrong v. American Exch Nat Bank of Chicago (1890)
30 federal appellate · 14 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Cromwell v. County of Sac · Pleasants v. Fant · Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Hall et al. · Railroad Company v. Fraloff
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Here the actual illegality of the paper was established. Tt was incumbent therefore on the plaintiff to show that he occupied the position of a bona fide holder before he could recover.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.