Bauer v. Wasson’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 1934
6 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 People ex rel. Keeler v. Robertson · Bauer v. Wasson
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The object of that clause of the section was no more than to ascertain with certainty the extent of the liability of the defendant and his sureties, that they might have the opportunity to discharge such liability, and have the record evidence of such discharge, by payment, without waiting for suit to be brought upon the bond.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lemm v. Spencer
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.