Bottum v. Herr’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently November 2006 · most notably City of Watertown v. Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad (1996), Buster v. Gale (1994)
2 federal appellate · 48 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 Cromwell v. Hosbrook · Renner v. Crisman · Warner v. First National Bank of Minneapolis · Keeley Lumber and Coal Co. v. Dunker · Henderson v. Gay
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot now assert error on matters not considered by or ruled upon in the trial court”
3 later decisions 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.