Steib v. Whitehead’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1986 · most notably Shelton v. King (1913), Potter v. Couch (1891)
2 federal appellate · 47 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Nichols Assignee v. Eaton et al. · Tillinghast v. Bradford Another · McIlvaine v. Smith · Smith v. Moore
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The property was not placed in her possession so that she might appear as owner when she was not, and thereby obtain credit. An examination of the public records would have shown that she had no power to sell or assign her equitable interest, that the extent of her right was to receive the net accumulations of the trust estate from the hands of the trustee, and that these accumulations did not become absolutely hers so as to render them subject to legal process for her debts until actually paid to her.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Requa v. Graham
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.