Stark v. Holtzclaw’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably Florida Power & Light Co. v. Bridgeman (1938), Orme v. Burr Burch v. Burr (1946)
2 federal appellate · 63 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 Railroad Company v. Stout · United Zinc & Chemical Co. v. Britt · Peters v. Bowman · Dobbins v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. · City of Pekin v. McMahon
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not difficult to carry the principle applied in this case to the point where its application would be logical but absurd from the viewpoint of our present well-settled views upon the rights of property and our duties to our neighbors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Crutchfield v. Adams
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.