Steffens v. Earl’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 1993 · most notably Harry's Village, Inc. v. Egg Harbor Township (1982), 178 N.J. Super. 411 - SDG v. Inventory Control Co. (1981)
28 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 Sheets v. Selden's Lessee · Anderson v. Prindle · Prindle v. Anderson · Ferguson v. Union Furnace Co. · Seem v. McLees
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is no evidence but the mere fact a payment [of rent] at intervals of a week or a month, the implication is that the renting is a monthly or weekly one, just as the payment is monthly or weekly.”
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.