Betts v. Mills’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 1941
15 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 Kitchell v. Burgwin · Harbison v. Vaughan · Deere v. Chapman · Greenwood v. Maddox & Toms · Rock v. Haas
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The finding of a court upon a question of fact is as conclusive in this court as the verdict of a jury, and where there is testimony clearly tending to establish the fact and sustain the finding, although indirect and circumstantial, this court will not reverse the finding, even though the only direct testimony is against the finding.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lena v. Clinkenbeard
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.