Doherty v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 1936
4 federal appellate · 16 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 Hefner v. Vandolah · Ray v. McMurtry · Jaqua v. Montgomery · Meredith v. Lackey · Hefner v. Dawson
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The allegation in the reply that, the appellee promised to pay the note after its execution on a reasonable and easy condition is inconsistent with the averments in the answer that the note was procured by fraud.” Doherty et al. v. Bell, 55 Ind. 205 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We do not hold that any new contract was created thereby, but that the old one was in that way recognized and ratified.””
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.