Belka v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
4 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2002 · most notably Crompton v. Beedle (1910), Smith v. Martin (1919)
4 district · 30 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 Mooney v. Miller · State v. Doherty · Smith v. Central Vermont Railway Co. · Crampton v. Valido Marble Co. · Shanks v. Whitney
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A statement which is in form only an expression of opinion, may in certain circumstances amount to an assertion of fact; and conversely, a statement which is in form an assertion of fact, may in certain circumstances amount to an expression of opinion merely.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Horner v. Wagy
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.