Stanford v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 171 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 184 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably City of San Antonio v. City of Boerne (2003), Barnett v. Aetna Life Insurance Co. (1987)
9 federal appellate · 171 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 Gilmore v. Waples · Farmers' & Mechanics' National Bank v. Hanks · Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. of Texas v. Cassady · Hodge v. Bryan · McCreary v. Williams
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 184 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where specific and particular enumerations of persons or things ... are followed by general words, the general words are not to be construed in their widest meaning or extent but are to be treated as limited and applying only to persons or things of the same kind or class as those expressly mentioned.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is another established rule that all acts in pari materia are to be taken together, as if they were one law, and that if it can be gathered from a subsequent statute, in pari materia, what meaning the Legislature attached to the words of a former statute, this will amount to a legislative declaration of its meaning, and will govern the construction of the first statute.” Cannon’s Adm’r v. Vaughan, 12 Tex. 399 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'worthy of serious consideration as an aid to interpretation, particularly where the construction has been sanctioned by long acquiescence. Although a contemporaneous or practical construction is not absolutely controlling, it has much persuasive force and is entitled to great weight in determining the meaning of an ambiguous or doubtful provision.'”
2 later decisions 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.