Bell v. . Merrifield’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
105 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2007 · most notably Pollitz v. . Wabash R.R. Co. (1912), Doyle v. Allstate Insurance (1956)
105 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Russell v. Place · Murtha v. . Curley · Hale v. . Omaha National Bank · Gates v. . Preston · Stowell v. . Chamberlain
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.