Bailey v. Robison’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 1980
17 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 Libby, McNeill & Libby v. Cook
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no evidence whatever in this record tending in the slightest degree to show that appellants owed Dr. McCoy anything except the notes involved in this suit at the time this check was delivered. In our opinion these circumstances have a direct tendency to prove that the $1500 was paid on these two notes.” ( 233 Ill. at 618 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.