Bates County v. Wills’s Empirical Analysis
200 F. 143 · 1912
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently November 1936
2 federal appellate ·
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 Cook v. Foley · Guild v. Andrews · Elliott v. Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. · Bates County v. Wiles · City of Trinidad v. Hokasona
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That the action of an engineer, architect, or other person invested with the power of decision as to the performance of a contract is conclusive, ‘except in case of fraud or such gross mistake as implies bad faith or a failure to exercise an honest judgment.’ ””
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.