Bamforth v. Ihmsen’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Ultra Resources, Inc. v. Hartman (2010), Wyoming Hereford Ranch v. Hammond Packing Co. (1925)
2 federal appellate · 29 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 Hauenstein v. Lynham · Hough v. Porter · Curtis v. Sutter · Houston Oil Co. of Texas v. Hayden · Penn Mutual Life Insurance v. Heiss
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where on the death of any person holding real property within the territories of one of the contracting parties, such real property would by the laws of the land, pass to a citizen or subject of the other, were he not disqualified by the laws of the country where such real property is situated, such citizen or subject shall be allowed a term of three years in which to sell the same, this term to be reasonably prolonged, if circumstances, render it necessary, etc.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dutton v. Donahue
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.