Bales v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 1987 · most notably St. Louis Safe Deposit & Savings Bank v. Kennett Estate (1903), Acton v. Dooley (1881)
40 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.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether in point of fact, the sale of the property was conducted in all respects judiciously or not, or in a manner most conducive to the interests of those concerned, are questions not involved in this case. This would be a legitimate inquiry in a proceeding to set aside a sale made under the power conferred by the instrument.... Bouton had no power to sell the property, and ... such sale passed no title to the purchaser.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.