Stewart v. Carleton’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Hansen v. Stewart (1988), Gregory v. Knight (1883)
30 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law recognizes them.as useful assistants in doing the mechanical work of measurement and calculation, and it also allows such credit to their judgment as belongs to any experience which may give it value in cases where better means of information do not exist. But the deter- ruination of facts belongs exclusively to courts and juries.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wineman v. Grummond
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.