Stith v. Pinkert’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
December 1989
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ballard v. Hunter · Cassady v. Norris · Duggan v. Ogden · Foster v. Graves · Ballard v. Hunter
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Practice and procedure include the mode of proceeding in the formal steps by which a legal right is enforced. Those words comprehend writs, summonses, and other methods of notice to parties as well as pleadings, rules of evidence and costs.”
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.