Stark v. Burke’s Empirical Analysis
1854
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1991
7 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The time of a court of justice should not be occupied with determining a cause on the general merits, only to. reach the fruitless result of setting aside its decree, not because it is erroneous in the case presented, but because the litigant desires to present a new question, which he might have presented before.””
2 later decisions 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.