Stewart v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2010
21 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 Conley v. Nailor · Kerr v. Lunsford · McMechen v. McMechen · Delaplain v. Grubb · Goodbar v. Lidikey
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While [the attorney] says she [the testatrix] had no discriminating judgment, ... his contract with her goes to the contrary, and it seems he would have taken her deed ... if she had not brought suit.... The suit was necessary and prudent; yet [the attorney] ... gave that suit as evidence of her incapacity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.