Tracy v. Bittle’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
2 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently February 2003 · most notably Fairlawns Cemetery Assn., Inc. v. Zoning Commission (1952), Wooldridge v. Smith (1912)
2 district · 43 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 The President Recorder and Trustees of the City of Cincinnati v. The Lessee of Edward White · Canter v. American & Ocean Insurance Co. of New York · Pearsall v. Post · Campbell v. City of Kansas · Price v. Thompson
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Equity has jurisdiction to enjoin an unwarrantable disturbance or interference with a burial ground or the graves therein.”
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.