Bast v. Bank’s Empirical Analysis
101 U.S. 93 · 1879
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 8 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1936 · most notably Coca-Cola Bottling Co. v. Coca-Cola Co. (1920), Union Stock-Yards & Transit Co. v. Western Land & Cattle Co. (1893)
30 federal appellate · 8 district · 12 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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where parties, without any fraud or mistake, have deliberately put their engagements in writing, the la.w declares the writing to be not only the best, but the only evidence of their agreement, and we are not disposed to relax the rule.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““This rule of law is only a conclusion of reason, that that medium of proof is most trustworthy which is most precise, deliberate, and unchangeable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.