Bomford v. Grimes’s Empirical Analysis
1856
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 1940
1 federal appellate · 8 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the administrator finds it necessary to call in medical assistance to the slaves of his intestate in his possession, when sick, no doubt he has the right and it is his duty to do so, not only as a matter of humanity, but by way of preserving them as property of the estate, for the benefit of the creditors and distributees; and it would be the duty of the probate court to allow to the administrator the reasonable and necessary expenses so incurred by b<mJ as part of the cost of administration. But, as between the administrator and ilie physician, it would be a personal contract. An administrator has no right to make a contract for a dead man.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Griggs v. Nadeau
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.