Bond v. . Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently December 1942 · most notably Laidlaw v. . Sage (1899), 46 Cal. App. 148 - Ham v. County of Los Angeles (1920)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 51 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 Beck v. . Carter · Cordell v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have no rigid to guess. * * * she [the plaintiff] simply furnished them [Ihe jury] food for speculation, and that will not do for the basis of a verdict. The law demands proof, and not mere surmises. The authorities are ample to show in such a case the plaintiff should have been nonsuited.””
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.