Bacon v. Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis
1861
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1960
12 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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the appellee is not satisfied with the.judgment of the justice of the -peace he should himself have taken an appeal. By not doing so he acquiesed in that judgment and must now be content with it. Taking an appeal by one party does not deprive the other of the right to do the same thing.””
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.