Stephens County v. Hefner’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 1965
24 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 United States v. Claflin · Phil. H. Pierce Co. v. Watkins · State v. Kennedy · Johnson v. Hanscom · Ellis County v. Thompson
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has been repeatedly held that a proposition assumed or decided in order to establish another proposition which expresses the conclusion of the court is as effectually passed upon and settled as the very question directly decided. Warren School District [No. 28] v. Stocker, 42 N.J.L. 115 ; Buchner v. Chicago, M. & N. W. Ry. Co., 60 Wis. 264 , 19 N.W. 57 ; Brown v. Chicago & N. W. R. Co., 102 Wis. 137 , 77 N.W. 748 , 78 N.W. 771 , 44 L.R.A. 586 . In the case of Brown v. Chicago & N. W. R. Co., supra, the rule is well stated as follows: ‘It is a mistaken opinion that nothing is decided in a case except the result arrived at. All the propositions assumed by the court to be within the case and all the questions presented and considered, and de-librately decided by the court, leading up to the final conclusion reached, are as effectually passed upon as the ultimate questions solved. School Dist. No. 38 [28] v. Stocker, 42 N.J.Law, 115 . The judgment is authority upon all points assumed to be within the issues which the record shows the court deliberately considered and decided in reaching it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Scherck
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.