Stafford v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 1926 · most notably Obermeyer v. Logeman Chair Manufacturing Co. (1906), Linderman v. Carmin (1914)
6 federal appellate · 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 Curtis v. McNair · Huhn v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co. · Bradley v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. · Waldhier v. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad · Mellor v. Missouri Pacific 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the duty of courts to determine what constitutes substantial evidence, and the business of the triors of fact to settle conflicts therein.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.