Stewart v. Masterson’s Empirical Analysis
131 U.S. 151 · 1889
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1939 · most notably Cline v. Frink Dairy Co. (1927), Board of Trade v. Christie Grain & Stock Co. (1905)
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A demurrer to a bill in equity cannot introduce as its support new facts which do not appear on the face of the bill, and which must be set up by plea or answer. * * * Where .there is matter in the bill which is properly pleaded, and is properly ground for equitable relief, and requires an answer or a plea, a demurrer to the whole bill will be overruled.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Richardson v. Loree
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.