Bain v. Boykin’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably School Board v. United States Gypsum Co. (1987), Noll v. Rahal (1979)
3 federal appellate · 36 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 Whitlock v. Hawkins · Kennedy Coal Corp. v. Buckhorn Coal Corp. · Colbert v. Ashland Construction Co. · Commonwealth v. United Cigarette Machine Co. · Bowers v. Keller
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It was an inchoate right which would become vested ... by the expiration of the period allowed at the time in which to take an appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Morency v. Com. · Hupman v. Cook“a right, so fixed, that it is not dependent on any future act, contingency, or decision to make it more secure.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Provided, however, that the failure of any person, firm or corporation to comply with the provisions of this act shall not prevent a recovery by or against such person, firm or corporation, in any of the courts in this State or (on) any cause of action heretofore or hereafter arising, but no action shall be maintained in any of the courts in this State by any such person, firm or corporation or his or its assignee or successor in title unless and until the certificate required by this act has been filed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Watkins v. Bishop
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.