Stone v. Sledge’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Magee v. Young (1946), Arnold v. Joines (1915)
47 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon the question whether one who signs a conveyance is bound by it, although he does not appear upon its face to be a party to the instrument, there is some conflict of opinion; but it seems to us that the great weight of authority is in favor of the proposition that as to such person the deed is wholly inoperative.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chalk v. Daggett““The wife’s signature to the instrument under consideration does tend to show her consent to her husband’s conveyance of the land, but that is a very different thing from manifesting a purpose to convey her own interest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Young v. Magee
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.