Bonner v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2010
20 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 Springfield Gas & Electric Co. v. City of Springfield · Sallee v. Dalton · Snetzer v. Gregg · Patterson v. Temple · Pryor v. Murphy
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]an the General Assembly create, for a single specified county, two separate and distinct county courts, clothed with all the powers and duties appertaining to such tribunals, when the justices of the peace are selected from townships whose area is admitted to consist of less than six hundred square miles ... ? We think not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parker v. Crow
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.