Stephens v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 1965
9 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
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 485
Relies on Perkins v. Hayward · Rundle v. Winters · Burnside v. Wand · Light v. Chandler Improvement Co. · Security Trust & Savings Bank v. McClure
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether, in excusing the jury and deciding the matter himself, the court felt that there were no disputed questions of fact, or if there were, that they were of such a nature that he did not need the jury’s advice to decide them, does not appear and is wholly immaterial. . . . And if the evidence were in dispute but such that the court felt it did not need the jury’s aid in determining the issues, he was not required either to submit the case or follow the jury’s verdict in case he did. ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stewart v. Schnepf
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.