Bushnell v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Herrick v. Herrick (1933), 90 Ill. App. 3d 674 - In Re Estate of Chandler (1980)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 49 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 William Hopkins v. Charles Hebard · Ernst Tosetti Brewing Co. v. Koehler · Schaefer v. Wunderle · In Re the Administration of the Estate of Crandall · Krieger v. Krieger
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“death settle[s] the question of separation beyond all controversy,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Briece v. Briece
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.