Stephens v. Conley’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably Ellinghouse v. Ajax Livestock Co. (1915), Plouffe v. Montana Department of Public Health & Human Services (2002)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 78 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 McCarthy v. De Armit · Wheeler v. Nesbitt · Wall v. Toomey · Woodward v. Murdock · Rand v. Butte Electric Railway Co.
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under a general denial of the allegations in the complaint [2, 3] the defendant may introduce any evidence which goes to controvert the facts which the plaintiff is bound to establish to sustain his action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barrett v. McHattie““We are forbidden to idolize matters of form at the expense of substance or to pay tithes of mint and anise and cumin while omitting the weightier matters of law.””
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.