Bottoms v. Botts’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
January 1993
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on States Exploration Company v. Reynolds · Hayward v. Ginn · Sanders v. C. P. Carter Const. Co. · St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co. v. Withers · Miller v. Tennis
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the duty of the trial court * * * to instruct upon the decisive issues raised by the pleadings and evidence in the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Knight v. Estes
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.