Stearns v. McManis’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2011
4 federal appellate · 11 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 Garza v. Alviar · Cranfill v. Hayden · Denton Publishing Company v. Boyd · Chemical Cleaning, Inc. v. Chemical Cleaning & Equipment Service, Inc. · Buck v. Savage
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“established by proof of facts and circumstances from which it may reasonably be inferred. It may be shown by, among other things, proof that the defendant entertained ill-will toward the complaining party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Little v. Bryce
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.