Bentley v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
210 F. 202 · 1914
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 1990
5 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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 Walbrun v. Babbitt · Dokken v. Page · Houck v. Christy
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In hastily removing anti disposing of this stock, they have effectually prevented any accurate finding upon its value, and while in this suit I cannot penalize them for that, yet, when there is fair doubt, they who have destroyed the evidence must be content if it is resolved against them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.