Bennett v. Meeker’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 1948
7 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 Spreckels v. Spreckels · Runyon v. Snell · Quimby v. Blackey · Platt v. . Platt · Woods v. Latta
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The application of this subdivision of the law may appear rigid and unfair, and it finds its way into the statutes doubtless upon the theory that under the law of averages it gives the greatest good to the greatest number in tolling the rights of negligent claimants. The remedy for curing its apparent defects with respect to diligent and honest owners rests with the legislature and not with this court.” (p. 311.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dougherty v. Norlin
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.