Steele v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2006
16 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 Robert Barry v. Griffith Coombe · Berg v. Scully · Inglis v. Fohey · Skinner v. Skinner · Kann v. Wausau Abrasives Co.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The contention of defendant that he is not bound because plaintiff was not bound is not good, even though it should be held that plaintiff was not bound in this case. This is the rule laid down in Wiley v. Hellen, 83 Kan. 544 , 112 Pac. 158 .” (1. c. 563.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sewell v. Dolby
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.