Stringer v. Dean’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1924
7 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 Haywood v. Johnson · Hubbardston Lumber Co. v. Covert · Nicolls v. Lawrence
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever a suggestion shall be made upon the record, or in any stage of the proceedings in any cause, which the adverse party shall have a right to controvert, a copy of such suggestion shall be served upon the adverse party or his attorney, in the same manner as other pleadings, and such party may plead thereto, according to the practice of the court, in the same manner, and within the same time, as to a declaration.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If an issue of fact be joined upon any such suggestion, the same shall be tried, and judgment rendered thereon, as on other issues.””
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.