Stephens v. Kasten’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 73 Ill. 2d 100 - Greene v. City of Chicago (1978), 73 Ill. 2d 90 - Hernandez v. Power Construction Co. (1978)
3 federal appellate · 58 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 Morrison Hotel & Restaurant Co. v. Kirsner · Osgood v. Skinner · Williams v. Gottschalk · Liska v. Chicago Railways Co. · Adams v. Corriston
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““None of the constitutional provisions define the right of trial by jury. The provisions in each, however, mean the same thing, namely, the right of trial by jury as it existed at common law and which was enjoyed at the adoption of the respective constitutions.” Stephens v. Kasten, 48 N.E.2d at 510 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The right of trial by jury as heretofore enjoyed shall remain inviolate”).) We agree with defendants that the right to a jury trial is”
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.