Beals v. Magenis’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 1982 · most notably Bank of New York v. Black (1958), 13 Mass. App. Ct. 144 - First National Bank v. Judge Baker Guidance Center (1982)
25 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 Knowlton v. Moore · Reinecke v. Northern Trust Co. · New York Trust Co. v. Eisner · Milliken v. United States · Young Men's Christian Ass'n of Columbus Ohio v. Davis
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not to be thwarted by refinements and distinctions resting upon subtlety and ingenuity or by lack of technical accuracy in the use of words or by unduly stressing the literal meaning of a few words or by attaching to them a hard and fast meaning which is not in consonance with the setting in which they were employed.”
2 later decisions 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.