Bishop v. Foley’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently March 1952
3 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 Thompson v. Greer · Struber v. Rohlfs · Dowell v. Caruthers · Dickerson v. Burlington & Missouri River Railroad · Hartzell v. Magee
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The justice before whom a cause has been tried, on motion of the party aggrieved, at any time within five days after the decision or verdict, shall vacate the decision or verdict and grant a new trial, for the same reasons and upon the same terms and conditions as provided in the code of civil procedure in like causes.” (R. S. 61-831.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Duncan v. Rider
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.