Laube v. Stevenson’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently December 2002 · most notably Dougherty v. Graham (1971), Furstein v. Hill (1991)
11 federal appellate · 86 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Guilford v. Yale University
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“why in common reason should a person invited for the occupier's pleasure be worse off than one who is about business concerning both?”
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.