Stead v. Fortner’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently August 1986 · most notably People v. Lim (1941), People Ex Rel. Bennett v. Laman (1938)
2 federal appellate · 54 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · In re Debs · Crowley v. Christensen · Smith v. McDowell · State ex rel. Crow v. Canty
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A court exercising equitable jurisdiction will not restrain, by injunction, the commission of illegal or immoral acts, and will not enjoin one engaged in the sale of liquor from making sales which are punishable by the criminal law. ’ ’”
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.