Stephens v. Collison’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 2007 · most notably Winger v. Chicago City Bank & Trust Co. (1946), Blackhurst v. James (1922)
3 federal appellate · 39 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 Ring v. Lawless · Wilcoxon v. Wilcoxon · Sinnet v. Bowman · Jordan v. Stevens · Baird v. Jackson
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule is well settled that where it is sought to impeach a transaction on the ground of fraud it is not sufficient to charge fraud generally, but the complaining party must state in his pleading the specific acts or facts relied on as establishing the fraud. Langlois v. McCullom, 181 Ill. 195 ; East St. Louis Connecting Railway Co. v. People, 119 id. 182; Fortune v. English, 226 id. 262.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dietzel v. Posen
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.