Bates v. Gillett’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 1994 · most notably In Re Estate of Tilliski (1945), Kellett v. Shepard (1891)
3 federal appellate · 45 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 McCartney v. Osburn · Castner v. Walrod · Howe v. South Park Commissioners · Beach v. Shaw · Barstow v. Goodwin
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“who is descended from another; that is, one who proceeds from the body of another.”
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.