Stoner v. Rice’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1999 · most notably Kean v. Calumet Canal & Improvement Co. (1903), Lamprey v. State (1893)
35 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 County of St. Clair v. Lovingston · Banks v. Ogden · Jones v. Johnston · Rice v. Ruddiman · State v. Portsmouth Savings Bank
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the subdivisions of the land are surveyed by running a meander line between the dry land and the water to ascertain the number of acres of dry land and designating such subdivision as a fractional quarter or a lot, giving the number of acres of dry land....”
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.