Beecher v. Baldy’s Empirical Analysis
1859
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably State Ex Rel. Caldwell v. Hooker, County Judge (1908), Miller v. Marx (1876)
1 federal appellate · 44 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Williams v. Starr · Taylor v. Hargous · Rich v. Davis · People v. Plumsted
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the statute, the property described was exempt without reference to its value, and under it the debtor might withhold from his creditors property worth a hundred thousand dollars or more.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fox v. Brannan
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.