Stoops v. Stoops’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 1999 · most notably Eugene Alper Construction Co. v. Joe Garavelli's of West Port, Inc. (1983), Lee v. Guettler (1965)
29 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 Grue v. Hensley · Hamilton v. Linn · State Ex Rel. Minihan v. Aronson · Robinson v. Field · Rice v. Griffith
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule against splitting a single cause of action is one of policy, the prevention of a vexatious multiplicity of suits.... in general, if the actions arose out of the same act, contract or transaction, or, if the parties and subject matter are identical and the evidence necessary to sustain the claims are the same, the actions are single and may not be split or separately tried.”
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.