Bush v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1850
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1926
4 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 State v. Plunket
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I confess, however, that I am yielding to authority, without being able to see clearly the reasons, on which the decisions are based, but so the law is settled, and we must abide by it.” (Bush et al. v. The State, 18 Ala. 415, 416 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Elliott
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.