Bernhardt v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently August 1974 · most notably 12 Cal. 3d 382 - Rodriguez v. Bethlehem Steel Corp. (1974), 20 Ill. 2d 406 - Dini v. Naiditch (1960)
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 43 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Relationships
Relies on Chicago Co v. City of Chicago · Johnson v. Johnson · Feneff v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad · Foot v. Card · Brown v. Kistleman
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and to discharge all of his marital and parental duties due them in the same degree that the law imposed those duties upon him previous to the injury, leaving no right of theirs, if any, violated, which has not been fully compensated. Such was the common law; * * *.”
1 later decision 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.