Bogart v. Hester’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently May 2003 · most notably Herrera Ex Rel. Estate of Ruiz v. Quality Pontiac (2003), Ramirez v. Armstrong (1983)
2 federal appellate · 50 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 24 Cal. 2d 133 - Oettinger v. Stewart · Barry v. . N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co. · Potter Title and Trust Co. v. Young · Newman v. Fox West Coast Theatres · Mayer v. Temple Properties Inc.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘A volunteer is one who intrudes himself into matters which do not concern him, or does or undertakes to do something which he is not legally nor morally bound to do, and which is not in pursuance or protection of any interest. * * * >»”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harless v. Ewing
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.