State v. Stoll’s Empirical Analysis
84 U.S. 425 · 1873
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 7 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2015 · most notably Kan-Gi-Shun-Ca (1883), Chew Heong v. United States (1884)
42 federal appellate · 7 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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.
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t must appear that the later provision is certainly and clearly in hostility to the former. If, by any reasonable construction, the two statutes can stand together, they must so stand. If harmony is impossible, and only in that event, the former law is repealed in part, [sic] or wholly, as the case may be.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“.as a doubtful or obscure declaration would not be justifiable, so it' is not to be imputed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.