Stein v. Burden’s Empirical Analysis
1856
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 1981
18 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 2 Johns. Ch. 161 - Gardner v. Trustees of Village of Newburgh · Stein v. Burden · Arnold v. Foot · Burden v. Stein · Van Bergen v. Van Bergen
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“quantity [of water] sufficient to affect injuriously the rights of the proprietor below,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crommelin v. Fain
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.