Stepp v. Stepp’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2004
19 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 Western & Atlantic Railroad v. Evans · Southern Bank v. Goette · Bridger v. Exchange Bank · Freyermuth v. South Bound Railroad · Chandler v. Georgia Chemical Works
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen a party relies on his own testimony in order to prevail, he has no just ground of complaint if, after scanning it carefully, without indulging any presumption in his favor, or supplying any gaps appearing therein, a court viewing it as a whole reaches the conclusion that it is insufficient to make out his case. [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Curry v. Curry
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.