Stevenson v. Earl’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently November 1965 · most notably 114 N.J. Eq. 391 - Bankers Trust Co. v. Bank of Rockville Center Trust Co. (1933), Noble v. Learned (1908)
2 federal appellate · 55 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that in the event of my death all deposits standing to my credit in said savings fund, and all interest due thereon, shall be paid to my wife.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the money belonging to him shall be paid over to the person designated in his application to receive the same.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“stating to her that here was the money, and that if he died it should go to her, * * *.”
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.