Bates v. Utech’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 1989
4 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 McCarty v. Occidental Life Ins. Co. of Cal. · Bankers Security Life Insurance Company v. Sauls
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Instruction No. 9. The court has made rulings upon questions of law arising in the comments of the trial of this case. In so doing, the court has not expressed nor intimated in any way the weight or credit to be given any evidence or testimony admitted during the trial nor indicated in any way the conclusion to be reached by you in this case. You are the sole judges of the evidence, the weight of the evidence and the credibility of the witnesses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Malnar v. Whitfield
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.