Sturges v. . Vanderbilt’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 1960 · most notably Martyne v. . American Union Fire Ins. Co. (1915), Crossman v. Vivienda Water Co. (1907)
2 federal appellate · 33 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.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It Is not material to refer to the New Jersey statute as to the mode of continuing an action, as that is a matter of practice which must be governed by our own laws; and in the present case there was no attempt to continue the action pursuant to the laws of either state.””
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.