Stiewel v. Webb Press Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 1999
12 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 Block v. Smith · Fifth Ward Savings Bank v. First National Bank · Estes v. German National Bank · Lowe v. Walker · Texarkana & Fort Smith Railway Co. v. Bemis Lumber Co.
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.
“■ “They can do so by permitting the directors to establish a habit or usage of assenting separately.to the making- and performance of contracts by their agents. •By permitting snch usages or habits to be formed by a long course of business, they adopt and become bound •by them, so long as they acquiesce. If this were not so, great injustice might be done to parties contracting with .them in their usual way.””
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.