Stone v. Westcott’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 1989
1 federal appellate · 4 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 Nichols Assignee v. Eaton et al. · Tillinghast v. Bradford Another · Davidson's ex'rs v. Kemper
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question raised for decision is whether the respondent * * * has any right in the fund, or the income of it, which he can enforce against the executors. If so, his creditor can also enforce it, and the bill can be sustained; otherwise, it cannot.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hunter v. Conrad
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.