Stead's executors v. Course’s Empirical Analysis
8 U.S. 403 · 1808
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Boston Chamber of Commerce v. City of Boston (1910), Dalzell v. Dueber Watch-Case Manuf'G Co (1893)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Thatcher v. Powell · Robert Parker and Miles White v. William Overman · Ronkendorff v. Taylor's Lessee · Ramsay v. Lee
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this case the merits of the claim cannot be examined. The only questions before this court, are upon the sufficiency of the plea to bar the action, and the sufficiency of the testimony to support the plea as pleaded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Farley v. Kittson
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.