Stephenson v. Wiess’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 state decisions

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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The parties, parents and grandparents of appellants, and heirs of both Henry and Ruth Stephenson, petitioned for the sale of the entire league, as the property of the estate of Henry Stephenson, and appellants, suing as their heirs, are estopped to set up at this date that only the title of Henry Stephenson passed by the sale.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Matt v. Ward