Bates v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 1982
18 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 Foltz v. St. Louis & S. F. Ry. Co. · Tube City Mining & Milling Co. v. Otterson · Dockery v. Central Arizona Light & Power Co. · Board of Com'rs v. Platt · Corral v. Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corp.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The test of jurisdiction is whether or not the tribunal has power to enter upon the inquiry, not whether its conclusion in the course of it is right or wrong.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. Palmer
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.