Stevens v. Lafferty’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 1952
2 federal appellate · 5 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 Myles Salt Company v. Board of Commissioners of the Iberia & St Mary Drainage District · Board of Directors of Modesto Irrigation District v. Tregea · Crall v. Board of Directors of Poso Irrigation District · Cullen v. Glendora Water Co. · Phipps v. Medford
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““From a careful consideration of the whole drainage act, we are compelled to come to the conclusion that the question of benefits to lands included in drainage district No. 4 could not be litigated in the proceeding to contest the validity of the bonds of such district; that a land holder dissatisfied with the inclusion of his lands in such district must make his objections before the board of supervisors upon the hearing of petition to organise the district or upon appeal to the superior court as provided in the statute.” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision 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.