Stein v. Hamman’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Starr v. Ferguson (1942), Siegel v. McGavock Drilling Co. (1975)
3 federal appellate · 38 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.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The existence of the indebtedness being thus recognized, in the absence of anything to the contrary in the writing, the law implies a promise to pay the same precisely as a written mortgage to secure a debt carries with it such implication. In truth, it can make no difference where the writing occurs, if it meets the requirements of the statute and is sufficiently specific as to the debt renewed. Such writing may be given for the express purpose, or it may be contained in a letter, deed, or other instrument whatsoever.”
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.