Russell v. Stoops’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 1993 · most notably Wedeman v. City Chevrolet Co. (1976), Empire Realty Co. v. Fleisher (1973)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 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 Robertson v. Parks · McAleer v. Horsey · Baltimore Belt Railroad v. Sattler · Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Carr · Webster v. Woolford
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule by which damages are to be estimated is, as a general principle, a question of law . to be decided by the Court; that is to say, the Court must decide, and instruct the jury, in respect to what elements, and within what limits, damages may be estimated in the particular action.””
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.