Stein v. Burden’s Empirical Analysis
1854
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 1973 · most notably South & North Ala. Railroad v. McLendon (1879), Sadler v. Langham (1859)
31 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 Parker v. Griswold · Rawls v. Doe ex dem. Kennedy · Stevens v. Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal · Arnold v. Foot · Crooker v. Bragg
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In relation to the evidence showing the effect of the diversion of the water, upon the mill of the plaintiff, we do not think the court erred. We concede that, in this action, no recovery could be had for damages which had accrued subsequent to the commencement of the action, as those damages would properly form the ground of a new action, and, therefore, could only be recovered in that mode — Robinson v. Bland, 2 Burr. 1077, 1086; Langford v. Owsley, 2 Bibb 215 (4 Am.Dec. 699); Hoop. 286; Blunt v. McCormick, 3 Denio 283 . But we do not find from the record that this evidence was offered for the purpose of showing the damages since the bringing of the action, but simply the effect at that time of the diversion of the water, with the view of affording information to the jury of the consequences of the diversion, under similar circumstances, before the suit; and in this aspect it was properly admissible.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Abbot v. Braswell
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.