Stone v. Covell’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 1939
17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think this was entirely proper. This was an •action for fraud in a bargain. In determining whether a fraud has been committed, it is always desirable to have the jury enabled to put themselves, as nearly as may be, in -the place of the parties, that they may fully appreciate the bearing of their conduct. The value of what is transferred on either side must bear more or less on the motives of both.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morman v. Harrington
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.