Stetler v. . McFarlane’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 1974 · most notably City of Lowell v. Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance (1943), Reub Isaacs & Co. v. Commissioner (1924)
28 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 The President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States v. Dandridge · Osterhoudt v. . Rigney · Altschul v. . Ludwig · Jorgensen v. . Squires · Ayers v. . Lawrence
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ We think such defects of form, if we were to regard them as established, would not impose upon the defendant a duty of restitution. They would charge him at the utmost with the burden of going forward with the evidence to explain the doubtful charges. That burden assumed, the duty of restitution does not arise unless defects inhering in the substance of the claim make it inequitable or illegal that the moneys be retained. The plaintiffs do not satisfy that requirement when it appears that the moneys are retained in satisfaction of a lawful debt.” (Stetler v. McFarlane, 230 N. Y. 400, 413 .)”
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.