White v. Sievers’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably Stith v. St. Louis Public Service Co. (1952), Mahoney v. Doerhoff Surgical Services, Inc. (1991)
75 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 Gerber v. Schutte Investment Co. · Jones v. Williams · Magee v. Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Co. · Campbell v. Webb
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We expressly hold that the rule against departure is no longer to be enforced”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.