Stevenson v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
86 U.S. 572 · 1873
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1989
1 federal appellate · 1 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.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tb.e act of Congress under which the removal was asked only authorizes a removal where the application is made before the final hearing or trial of the suit,' and this clearly means, before final judgment in the court of original jurisdiction where the suit is brought.””
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.