Stroud v. Springfield’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1975 · most notably Hunnicutt v. Peyton (1880), Southern Pine Lumber Co. v. Whiteman (1937)
3 federal appellate · 28 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.
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.
““If tne genuineness of these papers had been sufficiently proved, we are of opinion that they would have been admissible in evidence as the declarations of the party making them, for the purpose of aiding in the ascertainment of the boundaries of the Powell league.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tracy v. Eggleston“it cannot be doubted at this day that the declarations of deceased persons who shall appear to have been in a situation fo possess the information, and are' not interested, shall, on a question of boundary, be received in evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hunnicutt v. Peyton““By this plea (not guilty) they admit nothing, but demand strict proof of everything necessary to sustain the plaintiff’s action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hughes v. Hughes
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.