Bundy v. Hyde’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 1955 · most notably Darling v. Westmoreland (1872), Edgerly v. Barker (1891)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Kelley v. Davis · Andrus v. Foster · Carter v. Beals · Seavey v. Seavey · Gordon v. Potter
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By discretion — judicial discretion — we mean the exercise of final judgment by the court in the decision of such questions of fact as from their nature and the circumstances of the case come peculiarly within the province of the presiding judge to determine, without the intervention and to the exclusion of the functions of a jury.””
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.