Bostwick v. Skinner’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 1958 · most notably Davis v. Hudson (1881), Culver v. Hardenbergh (1887)
1 federal appellate · 22 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 Propst v. Meadows · Young v. Lorain · Unknown Heirs of Langworthy v. Baker · Wight v. Wallbaum · Botsford v. O'Conner
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon their face they [the proceedings in the county court] show that the court had jurisdiction, and unless it is now competent to raise an issue of fact to test their verity, they are conclusive. * * * It is perfectly consistent for us to hold that the record of the county court is conclusive on the question of the domicile of the deceased when questioned collaterally.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Palmer v. Bradley
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.