Haskins v. Royster’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2001 · most notably Angle v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co. (1894), Childress v. Abeles (1954)
5 federal appellate · 28 state decisions — followed in 12 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not necessary to decide what would be the effect of such a stipulation in an action on the contract between the parties to it. But as there seems to be some misconception of the law of such a case ... a few observations will more conveniently lead us to the question actually presented.”
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.