Stevenson v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2004
4 federal appellate · 15 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A demand in resolution is a demand for the property itself, and embraces in it the abrogation of any and all alienations and encumbrances placed upon it by the vendee.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The fact that the vendor has lost, or not preserved, his vendor’s lien, or mortgage, presents no sort of obstacle to the exercise of this right of resolution.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.