Bates v. Sylvester’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Ickes v. Brimhall (1938), Gilkeson v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co. (1909)
38 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 Meekin v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad · Hegerich v. . Keddie · Cregin v. . Brooklyn Crosstown Railroad Co. · Vincent v. . Newhouse · Behen v. St. Louis Transit Co.
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.
““For all wrong done to property, rights or interest of another, for which an action might be maintained against the wrongdoer, such action may be brought by the person injured, or after his death, by his 'executor or administrator, against such wrongdoer, and, after his death, against his executor or administrator, in the same manner and with like effect, in all respects, as actions founded upon contract.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The preceding section shall not extend to actions for slander, libel, assault and battery or false imprisonment, nor to actions on the ease for injuries to the person of the, plaintiff, or to the person of the testator or intestate of any executor or administrator.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ryan v. Ortgier
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.