Bonner v. Moran’s Empirical Analysis
126 F.2d 121 · 1941
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably 8 Cal. 3d 229 - Cobbs v. Grant (1972), Canterbury v. Spence (1972)
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 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 Schloendorff v. Society of the New York Hospital · Mohr v. Williams · Pratt v. Davis · 90 W. Va. 568 - Browning v. Hoffman · Moss v. Rishworth
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n deference to common experience, there is general recognition of the fact that many persons by reason of their youth are incapable of intelligent decision, as the result of which public policy demands legal protection of their personal as well as their property rights. The universal law, therefore, is that a minor cannot be held liable on his personal contracts or contracts for the disposition of his property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re JM“[A] surgical operation is a technical battery, regardless of its results, and is excusable only when there is express or implied consent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bundrick v. Stewart
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.