Stearns v. Lindow’s Empirical Analysis
70 F.2d 738 · 1934
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 1953
2 federal appellate · 10 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 Little v. Hackett · Miller v. Union Pacific R. · 120 Ohio St. 239 - Bloom v. Leech, Admr. · Creel v. State. · Whiddon v. Malone
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To constitute joint enterprise in such a case there must be not only joint or community interest, but also an equal right express or implied to direct and control the management and movement of the car.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Murphy v. Keating
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.