Steele v. Gann’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently June 1998 · most notably Williams v. Edmondson (1975), Owen v. Wilson (1976)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 35 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 Mulvey v. City of Boston · Maloney v. Brackett · Gentry v. Harrison · Kozisek v. Brigham · Proctor v. MacClaskey
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Again, there is no emergency clause, and the legislature, in passing the act without such a clause, thereby gave all parties 90 days in which to bring suits where the cause of action accrued before the effective date of the act. The suit, of course, brought after the passage of the act and before it became effective, would be under the law that existed prior to the passage of the act. In the instant case the appellant had 90 days after the passage of the act in which to bring her suit, and whether 90 days was a reasonable time, was a question for the legislature.”
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.