Bonner v. Glenn’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 1955 · most notably Lane v. Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad (1907), City of San Antonio v. Bodeman (1914)
1 federal appellate · 42 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.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There may be cases in which language used, especially in a closing argument, is so well calculated to arouse the prejudices of a jury as to make it proper to reverse a judgment, although the court may have done all in its power to destroy their effect.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Green v. Green
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.