Stein v. McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2018
12 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 Hooper Ex Rel. Hooper v. Conrad · Goodman v. Allen Cab Co. · Mueller v. Schien · Elgin v. Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. · Highfill v. Brown
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.
“As to this ground, the court could not have ordered a new trial on its own motion because more than 30 days had elapsed from the time of filing of the motion, and the trial court had lost control of the judgment except as to matters properly presented in said motion.”
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.