Steings v. Franklin County’s Empirical Analysis
81 U.S. 15 · 1871
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2010 · most notably Adkins v. Children's Hospital of the District of Columbia Same (1923), Wayne United Gas Co. v. Owens-Illinois Glass Co. (1937)
16 federal appellate · 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. Knight's Administrator · United States v. Ballard
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rely on the fact that said statute and ordinance were in violation of, and repugnant to, the Constitution of the United States, for their defence and plea in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Daniels v. Tearney“Matters resting in the discretion of a sub ordinate court cannot be assigned for error in an appellate court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. DeBELLA v. People
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.