Bell v. Otts’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Martin v. Alabama Power Co. (1922), 331 So. 2d 623 - Jewell v. Jackson & Whitsitt Cotton Co. (1976)
38 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 Speed v. Cocke · Bishop v. Lalouette's Heirs · Hinson v. Wall · Tombeckbee Bank v. Godbold
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to support it as such would be to sanction an uncertainty and looseness in the record and preservation of solemn and important judicial ascertainments, such as would be pernicious.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A judgment should be complete and certain in itself, and must appear to be the act — the adjudication — of the court, and not a memorandum or certified result.”
1 later decision 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.