Bateman v. Donovan’s Empirical Analysis
131 F.2d 759 · 1942
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently November 1991 · most notably Williams v. State (1982), United States v. Sowards (1966)
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Mattox v. United States · Gunning v. Cooley · McDonald v. Pless · Brabham v. Mississippi ex rel. Smith · Department of Water & Power v. Anderson
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““During the life of the husband the right is a mere expectancy or possibility.” Randall v. Kreiger, 1874, 23 Wall. 137 , 148, 90 U.S. 137 , 23 L.Ed. 124 . “Under Montana law the dower interest of a wife is merely an inchoate right— whether treated as a bare expectancy or as a contingent interest — which does not become consummate until the husband’s death.” Bateman v. Donovan, 9 Cir., 1943, 131 F.2d 759 , 763. (Emphasis added.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The verdict, as finally agreed upon and pronounced in court by the jurors, must be taken as the sole embodiment of the jury’s act. Hence it stands, irrespective of what led up to it in the privacy of the jury-room, — precisely as the prior negotiations of the parties to a contract disappear from legal consideration when once the final agreement is reduced to writing and signed.” 131 F.2d at 765 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“expressions, arguments, motives, and beliefs”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.