Stoffela v. Nugent’s Empirical Analysis
217 U.S. 499 · 1910
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1980 · most notably Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co. v. United States (1927), Stephens Institute v. National Labor Relations Board (1980)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 Pullman's Co v. Central Transp Co · Alvin Johns v. James Wilson · National Bank Loan Company of Watertown v. Moses Petrie
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the courts will endeavor to do substantial justice so far as is consistent with adherence to law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.