Douglas v. Stokes’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably 112 Cal. App. 285 - Melvin v. Reid (1931), Reid v. Pierce County (1998)
6 federal appellate · 55 state decisions — followed in 14 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.
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The corpse of the children was in the custody of the parents. The photographer had no authority to make the photographs, except by their authority, and when he exceeded his authority he invaded their right. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brents v. Morgan
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.