Stockmeyer v. Tobin’s Empirical Analysis
139 U.S. 176 · 1891
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1993 · most notably Barrett v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1987), Nalle v. Young (1896)
10 federal appellate · 15 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 Freeman v. Dawson · Phelps v. Reinach · Stockton v. Downey · Soniat v. Miles
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.
““The wi-it of seizure and sale directed the sheriff to seize and, after the legal delays, to advertise and sell, according to law. * * * The -writ, it is true, did not in terms require the sale to he made without appraisement. * * * We think, in view of the petition and order for executory process,' the words ‘according to law’ in the writ imported a sale in accordance with the stipulations of the mortgage and the prayer of the petition, viz. without appraisement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Owens v. Culbertson“no other evidence than the interdiction itself is necessary to prove the incapacity of the person, and to invalidate any contract he may have made after the day the petition for interdiction was presented.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.