National Safe Deposit Co. v. Stead’s Empirical Analysis
232 U.S. 58 · 1914
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 162 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Mapp v. Ohio (1961), Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad (1916)
45 federal appellate · 96 state decisions — followed in 29 states
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 Hurtado v. People of the State of California · Chicago Co v. City of Chicago · Flint v. Stone Tracy Co. · Smyth v. Ames · Barbier v. Connolly
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 162 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“both in common speech and in legal terminology, there is no word more ambiguous in its meaning than possession.”
10 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.