Steadman v. Topham’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably BOARD OF TRUSTEES, ETC. v. Holso (1978), Torrey v. Twiford (1986)
3 federal appellate · 27 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 9 Cal. 2d 409 - Herbert v. Lankershim · Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Barrack · Kennedy v. Crouch · Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Pherson · Baird v. Aluminum Seal 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * relieve an appellate court of its duty of analyzing the evidence in the light of reason and human experience and giving consideration to the motives and propensities which tend to influence or prompt human action, in an effort to solve the question as to whether the judgment is reasonably and substantially sustained by the evidence. * * * ” Steadman v. Topham, 80 Wyo. 63 , 338 P.2d 820, 825 (1959).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Murphy v. Stevens · Wilhelm v. Lake
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.