Birch v. Benton’s Empirical Analysis
1858
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Cook v. Globe Printing Co. (1910), Christal v. Craig (1883)
36 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 Easley v. Moss · Berry v. Dryden · Olmsted v. Miller · Iseley v. Lovejoy · Fox v. Vanderbeck
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no act which is more disgraceful or cowardly, and no offence for which a man ought more promptly to be branded with shame.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sipp v. Coleman
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.