Stewart v. Griffith’s Empirical Analysis
1862
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2013
1 federal appellate · 10 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 David Wilkinson v. Thomas Leland · Richard Watkins v. Oliver Holman · State v. K. · G. & D. Taylor & Co. v. R. G. & J. T. Place · Cochran v. Van Surlay
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whilst we maintain the validity of this law, we think that we violate no rule of propriety or courtesy in expressing a decided opinion of the general impolicy of acts of like character,””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Arnold v. Garth
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.