Bates v. Preble’s Empirical Analysis
151 U.S. 149 · 1894
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 4 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2012 · most notably United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. (1940), Dallago v. United States (1969)
65 federal appellate · 4 district · 47 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Wood v. Carpenter · Vicksburg v. O'Brien · Felix v. Patrick · Chaffee & Co. v. United States
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“likely to attract the eye of the jury, and accident or curiosity would be likely to lead them, despite the admonition of the court, to read the plaintiff's comments upon the defendants and her private meditations, which had no proper place in their deliberations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We do not regard any of these cases as committing this court to the general doctrine that such memoranda are admissible for any other purpose than to refresh the memory of the witness.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Sec. 3. * * * All actions of the case except for words spoken and for injuries to tlie person, all actions of debt founded upon any contract without specialty,. * * * shall be commenced and sued within six years next after the cause of action shall accrue, and not after.” “Sec. 7. If any person, liable to an action by another, shall fraudulently, by actual misrepresentation, conceal from him the existence of the cause of such action, said cause of action shall be deemed to accrue against the person so liable therefor, at the time when the person entitled to sue thereon shall first discover its existence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Curtis v. Metcalf
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.