State Ex Rel. Bolden v. Johnstone’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1972
9 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 Colton v. Board of Trustees
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . When he submitted himself for the examination and was found to be in good health, he then brought himself within the provisions of the act, and was entitled to all the benefits thereunder. . . .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““If . . . such surgeon shall certify that such member is in good health, mentally and physically, . . . such member and his dependants shall be entitled thereafter to share in all the benefits. . . .” Burns’ §48-6402 (1933), being Acts 1925, ch. 51, §2, p. 167.”
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.