Bacon v. Hooker’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 1960
7 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 Tuthill v. . Morris · Lambert v. Robinson · Schayer v. Commonwealth Loan Co. · McCann v. Tillinghast
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The count for an assault imported a direct assault by the defendants. At the trial it appeared that neither of them was present, and there was nothing tending to shoiv that either of them had commanded or authorized the assault. As the count stood, therefore, the evidence that was offered of an assault by McEvoy was incompetent. * * * ” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chambers v. Cagle
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.