Bell v. Skinner’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1952
9 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 Medill v. Snyder · Bethany Hospital Co. v. Philippi · Hoff v. Hoff · Cole v. Drum · Butler v. Milner
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellants . . . seem to overlook the fact that this was a case of an equitable character, where, if a jury is called at all, it serves only in an advisory capacity, and the court is not bound to defer to its judgment, and, indeed, in such cases the trial court cannot shift its own peculiar responsibility for the discovery of the truth of disputed facts by merely calling an advisory jury to its assistance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Minch v. Winters
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.