Bishop v. Catlin’s Empirical Analysis
1855
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 1901
6 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 Hutchins v. Sprague · Boardman v. Cushing · Thomas v. Goodwin
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ By instituting this suit to recover the avails of the property assigned, and therein charging them as trustees under the assignment, they have not only ratified the assignment itself, but also any disposition of the property which may have been made by the trustees under it. The plaintiffs will not be at liberty after that to question the legality of any transfer of the property which the trustees may have made.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sickman v. Hax
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.