Stevens v. McCormick’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 1982
9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The appellants contend, and we think with good reason, that it was premature and erroneous to order a sale before ascertaining the extent of the respective interests of the parties. When a sale takes place the parties are entitled to know exactly how they stand, in order that if they desire to bid for the land they may do so intelligently ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wolfrey v. Pence
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.