Bennett v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 1997 · most notably City of Abilene v. Downs (1963), Cagle v. McQueen (1952)
2 federal appellate · 31 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 Belo Corp. v. Thomas Blanton · Meredith v. McClendon · Meredith v. McClendon · Newlin v. Smith · Jones v. Wynne
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““3_ * * * “4. Any person who has a bias or prejudice in favor of or against either of the parties. «5. ‡ * $»”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.