Mills v. . Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1928
1 district · 8 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The respondent’s stock having been forfeited, his liability to the company for further payment thereon ceased. Small v. Herkimer Man. Co., 2 Comst. 330.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. White v. Bender
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.