Bell v. Percy’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2000
6 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 Hester v. Bishop · MOSES, ET UX. v. Weaver
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The evidence on the issue as to whether the fence or fence line marked and was recognized as the true boundary lines between the properties was conflicting and the chancellor resolved the issue of fact adversely to the appellant and we cannot say that he was manifestly wrong, and hence we are not warranted in disturbing his finding on this issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mathews v. Hale
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.