Bostwick v. McEvoy’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 1991
23 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 Wheelwright v. Wheelwright · City of San Francisco v. Lawton · Bank of Stockton v. L. L. Howland & Co. · Tyler v. Granger · Hawkins v. Hill
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is urged that the estate of a deceased maker of a joint promissory note executed by two or more, can not be joined as defendant with the surviving debtor or debtors in an action on the note. . . . Such an action, however, is maintainable in this state, but any judgment recovered against the administrator must be made payable de bonis testatoris.””
2 later decisions 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.