Stem v. . Warren’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2013
2 federal appellate · 8 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedStem v. Warren
Relationships
Relies on Costello v. . Costello · Williams v. . Whedon · King v. . Leighton · Stewart v. . Robinson
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Upon the death of Mr. Reed it was the duty of the survivors of the firms to take possession of the firm’s assets, perform the contract, extinguish the firm’s liabilities, and close its business for the interest of all parties concerned, and the representatives of Reed were entitled to share in the profits of all unfinished business though subsequently completed.”
2 later decisions 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.