Stevens v. The Railroads’s Empirical Analysis
4 F. 97 · 1880
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1995 · most notably Ford Motor Co. v. National Labor Relations Board (1939), Pullman's Co v. Central Transp Co (1898)
5 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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 Hughes v. United States · County of Warren v. Marcy · Kendig v. Dean · Orleans v. Platt · Welch v. Mandeville
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The injury to the defendant must be of a character that deprives him of some substantive rights concerning his defenses not available in a second suit, or that may be endangered by the dismissal, and not the mere inconveniences of double litigation, which, in the eye of the law, would be compensated by costs.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Wellhouse
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.