Steele v. Exum’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently November 1957
2 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.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There may be a full jurisdiction, or a limited jurisdiction in Courts determined by the law which confers it. In cases of the kind before the Court we think that section 147 has conferred upon the Courts of this State jurisdiction, to the extent of changing the place of trial in cases falling under the sections referred to.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the Court may change the place of trial, in the following cases: (1) When the county designated for that purpose in the complaint is not the proper county.”
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.