Bordner v. Kelso’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2023
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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 Mayrand v. Mayrand · Crosby v. Dorward · Smith v. Kopitzki
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The evidence of some of the witnesses who testified that Crosby was not competent to transact ordinary business is weakened by the fact that they transacted business with him and admitted that he seemed to understand what he was about.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McGregor v. Keun
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.