Steinman v. Maier’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Waterbury Petroleum Products, Inc. v. Canaan Oil & Fuel Co. (1984), Smith v. Smith (1981)
37 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 Morgan v. Hill · Toffolon v. Town of Avon · Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. Constitution National Bank · Hartford Electric Light Co. v. Levitz · Velsmid v. Nelson
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Nothing in our law is more elementary than that the trier is the final judge of the credibility of witnesses and of the weight to be accorded their testimony."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the designation of unsurveyed acreage contained in old deeds is quite unreliable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"The sifting and weighing of evidence is peculiarly the function of the trier."”
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.