State v. Stafford’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
July 1945
most recently cited
2 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an Able Bodied Man or a Man Capable of Earning or Making a Livelihood,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Eskew
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.