Stalder v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
118 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 221 Ill. 2d 234 - In Re Donald AG (2006), 42 Ill. 2d 201 - People Ex Rel. Edwards v. Livingston (1969)
118 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 Matter of Bistany · Cormack v. Marshall · Hill v. Allabaugh · 344 Ill. App. 266 - Stalder v. Stone
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an inherent deficiency of moral sense and rectitude.”
13 later decisions 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.