Bell v. Brockman’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 1962
5 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 McPherson v. First Presbyterian Church of Woodward · Weaver v. Bishop · Jordan v. Nesmith · Fairfax Oil Co. v. Bolinger · Bixby v. Cravens
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The action being one of purely equitable cognizance we have carefully examined the entire record and weighed the evidence and find that the equities involved where such as to justify the judgment of the trial court. It follows therefore that the judgment will not be disturbed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.