Bonner v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1935
7 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 Swann & Billups v. Lindsey · Peebles v. Tomlinson · Woods v. Nabors
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The certificate signed by Scott, register of the land office,-was not legal evidence. It was not a certificate made by him, constituting alike an official act done by him, and the evidence of it; nor was it a certified copy from official records in his custody. It merely stated that the records in his office showed ‘that, on August 11, 1855, Sarah Presnail entered at St. Stephens, Ala., the S. E. % of S. E. % of section 25, in township 8 N., of range 4 E., St. Stephens principal meridian,’ ” etc.”
1 later decision 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.