Stocking v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1855
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably State ex rel. Hovey v. Noble (1889), State ex rel. Carson v. Harrison (1888)
1 federal appellate · 63 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Weinzorpflin v. State · Ledley v. State
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Looking at the evidence in the record, we have no reason to doubt that the human body seen in the flames was the body of John Rose.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State““An existing office without an incumbent is vacant, whether it be a new or an old one.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schaffner v. Shaw
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.