Bates v. Bodie’s Empirical Analysis
245 U.S. 520 · 1918
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 15 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1997 · most notably Yarborough v. Yarborough (1933), Myers v. International Trust Co. (1923)
38 federal appellate · 15 district · 53 state decisions — followed in 17 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBodie v. Bates
Relationships
Relies on Cromwell v. County of Sac · Hart Steel Company v. Railroad Supply Company · Andrews v. Andrews · Troxell v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But if the second ease be upon a different cause of action, the prior judgment or decree operates as an estoppel only as to matters actually in issue or points controverted, upon the determination of which the judgment or decree was rendered.””
3 later decisions 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.