Stout v. Benoist’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 1955
20 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 President Directors Company of the Bank of the United States v. President Directors Company of the Bank of the State of Georgia · President of the Gloucester Bank v. President of the Salem Bank
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a misfortune which has happened without the defendant’s fault or neglect. If there was no neglect in the plaintiff! yet there is no reason to throw off the loss from one innocent man upon another innocent man. But in this case, if there was any fault or negligence in any one, it certainly was in the plaintiff, and not in the defendant. ””
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.