Stark v. Starr’s Empirical Analysis
94 U.S. 477 · 1876
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 30 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 175 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2019 · most notably Baltimore Co v. Phillips (1927), Shively v. Bowlby (1894)
42 federal appellate · 30 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Stark v. Starrs
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 175 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““'Chis statement, however, is qualified by the following, which is not included in the citation: ‘But this principle does not require distinct causes of action—that is to say, distinct matters—each of which would authorize by itself independent relief, to be presented in a single suit, though they existed at the same time and might be considered together.5 The qualification states the elementary rule. One of the tests laid down for the purpose' of determining whether or not the causes of action should have been joined in one suit is whether the evidence necessary to prove one cause of action would establish the other.””
15 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.