Bell v. Fitzpatrick’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1968 · most notably Poafpybitty v. Skelly Oil Co. (1968), Roth v. Union Nat. Bank of Bartlesville (1916)
1 federal appellate · 39 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 Heckman v. United States · Carpenter v. Strange · United States v. Trinidad Coal & Coking Co. · Bowling & Miami Investment Co. v. United States · Jefferson v. Winkler
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.
““If the contention of defendant be correct, it would be an easy matter to procure a conveyance from a minor to his allotted lands, which is conceded to -be void, and by causing suit to be brought by said minor, or by some person in his behalf, and then entering into an agreement to dismiss said suit for a nominal consideration — as in the present instance, for the sum of $1 — secure a dismissal of said suit, and thereby obtain title to said restricted lands. This cannot be done””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tucker v. Leonard
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.