Bean v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1995
14 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 Suell v. Derricott · Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Co. v. Friedman · General Electric Co. v. Town of Fort Deposit · Lessley v. Prater · Beech v. State
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If exception is desired to be reserved to a part of the oral charge of the court to the jury, it must be taken and reserved to the particular language the exceptor conceives to be erroneous. (Cases cited).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Johnson
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.