Bilansky v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1859
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1937 · most notably Wight v. Nicholson (1890), Gagnon v. United States (1904)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 State v. Babcock · Montgomery Rail Road v. Hurst · Bartlett v. Lang's Adm'rs · Hamilton v. Knight
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I have quoted thus copiously from these commentaries, to show that the spirit of strictness claimed for the practice in respect to the amendment of records, took its rise, not in the wisdom which characterizes the body of the English common law, but from influences which have long ceased to operate, having yielded to the progress made in the science of jurisprudence; the sole aim of which, now, is the discovery of truth, and the promotion of justice.”'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.