Stoeckle v. Armstrong’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 1933
4 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 United States v. Kirkpatrick · Bronson v. Kinzie · Brine v. Insurance Co. · Barnitz v. Beverly · Gibbons v. United States
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In respect to statutes, the rule of construction seems to be, that the word ‘may’ means ‘must’ or ‘shall’ only in cases where the public interest and rights are concerned, and where the public or third persons have a claim, de jure, that the power should be exercised.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Terry v. Stull
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.