Stone v. Boone’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 1941
9 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 Stage v. Olds · Humphreys v. Matthews
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Two questions are therefore presented by the record: First, Does it appear that the claim upon which the attachment was issued is a ‘debt or demand arising upon contract, judgment or decree ?’ If it does not so appear, the second is: Did the cause of action for the unascertained profits of the partnership arise wholly within the limits of Kansas ?””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kidd v. Seifert“‘ ‘ There seems to be running through the entire body of judicial decisions the doctrine that judges ought not to disturb prior rulings of the same court except for cogent reasons; as some express it, ‘only where the decision is flatly absurd or unjust,’ as the certainty of the rule is often more important than the reason of it.””
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.