Putnam v. Bessom’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 1986
10 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 Monroe Cattle Co. v. Becker · Commonwealth v. Snow · Commonwealth v. S. S. Kresge Co. · Conners v. City of Lowell · Commonwealth v. Gedzium
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The name of a person is the distinctive characterization in words by which he is known and distinguished from others.” [Underscoring ours.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Petition of Dengler
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.