Stephens v. Epperson’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
January 1952
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Noe v. Davis · Reid v. Craig · Louisville Joint Stock Land Bank v. McMurry · Pulaski County v. Sears · Holliday v. Tennis Coal Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Here Stephens (the party seeking the new trial) used no diligence to-produce this contract (the allegedly newly discovered evidence) and it cannot be said he discovered it after the trial because he had it in his possession all the time.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cobb v. Keith
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.