Bates v. Old Mac Coal Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 1996
15 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 International Harvester Co. of America v. Cameron · State ex rel. Com'rs of Land Office v. Reynolds · Smith v. Board of Com'rs of Rogers County · Hester v. Watts · McGrath v. Majors
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court’s jurisdiction in such matters does not and cannot extend to adjudication of matters neither properly raised by the pleadings nor supported by proof. This seems particularly true here, where the face of the record reflects that plaintiffs were granted a decree quieting title as against a paramount, outstanding title, with the uncommon result that they thus were permitted to enhance the extent of their estate in property by acquisition of an interest which, on the face of the record, plaintiffs never had owned.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Churchill v. Muegge“[T]erms which do not delineate facts and go no further than reciting the pleader’s reactions to, or the inferences which he may draw from, certain undisclosed facts ... It is an elementary principle that pleadings should allege the ultimate facts which are to be established, and not mere legal conclusions ... A pleading which depends on conclusions of law, without properly stating the facts on which they are based, is fatally defective ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In the present case the plea of res judicata is based upon a default judgment rendered upon publication service. The petition alleged only a conclusion of law, without allegation of any matters from which such conclusion could be drawn. Thus no issue was presented by the pleadings for the trial court’s direct determination, and it was beyond the trial court’s jurisdiction to render judgment purporting to quiet title. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Churchill v. Muegge
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.