Stout v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently January 1996 · most notably 18 La. App. 725 - Rossville Commercial Alcohol Corp. v. Dennis Sheen Transfer Co. (1931), Quatray v. Wicker (1931)
54 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 64 Cal. App. 249 - Gornstein v. Priver · Schick v. Jenevein · Byas v. Texas & P. Ry. Co. · Robinson v. American Ice Co. · Willmott v. Corrigan Consolidated Street Railway Co.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our conclusion is that the defendant Hahn is responsible for plaintiff’s injury and that plaintiff should recover.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cosse v. Ballay
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.