Stapleton v. Stapleton’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2010
24 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 Wetzel v. Hobbs · Kinnon v. L. & N. R. R. · Thompson v. State · Scroggins v. Alabama Gas Corporation · Southern Electric Generating Company v. Lance
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ '1. The final decree of the court rendered April 28, 1965, is contrary to the evidence in the case for that the Appellee failed to prove abandonment as alleged in his Bill of Complaint. (Transcript page 50) “ ‘2. The final decree of the court rendered April 8, 1965, is contrary to the Law of the Case for that the Appellee failed to prove abandonment as alleged in his Bill of Complaint. (Transcript page 50)’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““1. The Decree appealed from is contrary to the great weight of the evidence. “2. The Decree appealed from is not supported by the evidence. “3. The Decree appealed from is contrary to law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mills v. Pearson
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.