Order of St Benedict of New Jersey v. Albert Steinhauser’s Empirical Analysis
234 U.S. 640 · 1914
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Guinn v. Church of Christ of Collinsville (1989), United States v. Stevens (1938)
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 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
reviewedSteinhauser v. Order of St. Benedict of New Jersey (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Speidel v. Henrici · Goesele v. Bimeler · Thomas Malone v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · Burt v. . Oneida Community
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An association of individuals is formed under a religious influence, who are in a destitute condition, having little to rely on for their support but their industry; and they agree to labor in common for the good of the society, and a comfortable maintenance for each individual; and whatever shall be acquired beyond this shall go to the common stock. This contract provides for every member of the community, in sickness and in health, and under whatsoever misfortune may occur.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the real estate of said order and the individual earnings of its members are and must be considered as common property of the Order of St. Benedict of New Jersey, from which the members of said Order derive their support, and the balance of which income and property should serve for following up and carrying out of the charitable objects of the Order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n Steinhauser , a unanimous Supreme Court applied long-standing federal precedent to explicitly recognize ' [t]he validity of agreements providing for community ownership with renunciation of individual rights of property during the continuance of membership in the community, where there is freedom to withdraw, has repeatedly been affirmed.”
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.