Stein v. Benedict’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 1965 · most notably Zinc Carbonate Co. v. First National Bank of Shullsburg (1899), Bragg v. Gaynor (1893)
26 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 Embry v. Palmer · Knox County v. Harshman · Hendrickson v. Hinckley · Stowell v. Eldred · Hunter v. Bosworth
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The proper course is'to apply by petition for relief in the first suit. The power of the court in which the first judgment or decree has been rendered, to grant relief in cases like this, is undoubted. This has long since passed beyond the field of discussion, and must be regarded as settled beyond dispute. . . . The objection to the jurisdiction of the court was sufficient to defeat the action. . . . Without considering whether the objection to the jurisdiction of the court may not be raised on such demurrer [referring to a demurrer ore tonus'], or the court may not of its own motion act on the objection when not raised by a formal demurrer, . . ., it must be held that it was here properly presented, so that the court might act on it and dismiss the complaint, upon which it was plain no relief, according to the settled decisions of this court, ought to be granted.””
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.