Stevens v. Sparks’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably American Standard Homes Corp. v. Reinecke (1993), Colley v. Cox (1969)
10 federal appellate · 25 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 King v. Merryman · White v. White · Quesenberry v. Funk · Wrenn v. Daniels · Sanford v. Sims
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Usually, when a court of equity has acquired jurisdiction of a cause it will retain it for all purposes and administer full relief. It may enforce, if necessary, legal rights and apply legal remedies to accomplish that end and where equity takes jurisdiction for one purpose it will determine all questions arising in the cause. White v. White, 181 Va. 162, 169 , 24 S.E.2d 448 ; Sanford v. Sims, 192 Va. 644, 649 , 66 S.E.2d 495 ; 7 M.J., Equity, § 6, P-11-”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carr v. Tharp
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.