Steinback v. . Diepenbrock’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2009 · most notably Grigsby v. Russell (1911), McNulty v. Mount Morris Electric Light Co. (1902)
3 federal appellate · 32 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSteinback v. Diepenbrock
Relationships
Relies on Warnock v. Davis · Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. Schaefer · Wright v. Mutual Benefit Life Ass'n · Martin v. Stubbings · Olmsted v. . Keyes
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“will declare such contract invalid, not because of the assignment, but in spite of it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.