Bostatter v. Hinchman’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1997
1 federal appellate · 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 Michel v. Smith · Johnson v. Williams' Admr. · Foley v. Martin · Ivy v. Osborne · Miles v. Wright
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘‘ The sureties on the bond of a sheriff are liable with him for any trespass committed by him in attempting to discharge his official duties. Charles v. Haskins, 11 Iowa, 329 , 77 Am. Dec. 148 . An officer who acts in excess of his authority becomes a trespasser, and his acts in excess of such authority breach his official bond. Martin v. Smith, 136 Ky. 804 , 125 S. W. 249 , 29 L. R. A. (N. S.) 463; John son v. Williams’ Adm’r., 111 Ky. 289 , 63 S. W. 759 , 54 L. R. A. 220, 98 Am. St. Rep. 416 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lynch v. Burgess
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.