Bottom's v. Hawks’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014 · most notably United Zinc & Chemical Co. v. Britt (1922), City of Shawnee v. Cheek (1913)
1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Railroad Company v. Stout · Union Pac Ry Co v. McDonald · Peters v. Bowman · Dobbins v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. · City of Pekin v. McMahon
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Temptation is not always invitation. As the common law is understood by the most competent authorities it does not excuse a trespass because there is a temptation to commit it, or hold property owners bound to contemplate the infraction of property rights, because the temptation to untrained minds to infringe them might have been foreseen.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““When the question of his contributory negligence arises, his age, intelligence, and want of experience are to be considered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.