Bridgman v. Drilling’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 1994 · most notably Larson MacHine, Inc. v. Wallace (1980), Williams v. Edmondson (1975)
32 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 Wood v. Wood · Love v. Couch · Western Coal & Mining Co. v. Corkille · Railway Co. v. Shelton · Keith v. Drainage Dist. No. 7 of Poinsett County
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An amendment to a declaration, petition or complaint which sets up no new cause of action or claim, and makes no new demand relates back to the commencement of the action, and the running of the statute against the claim so pleaded is arrested at that point. ’ ’”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““We have repeatedly stated that the trial court is invested with broad discretion in allowing amendments to pleadings under Ark. Stats. § 27-1160 in order to effectuate the manifest purpose of the statute to permit the trial of litigation upon its merits. ... We agree with the trial court that the amendment to the complaint did not constitute a new cause of action.””
2 later decisions 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.