Bates v. . Holbrook’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 1996
16 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 Baltimore v. Fifth Baptist Church · Booth v. . R., W. O.T.R.R. Co. · Radcliff's Executors v. . Mayor, C. of Brooklyn · Sun Printing & Publishing Ass'n v. Mayor of New York · Seifert v. . City of Brooklyn
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]cts which are authorized by the express enactments of the legislature and performed in good faith upon work of a public character do not render the persons performing them liable for consequential damages unless there is an absence of due care or skill in the execution of the work.”
1 later decision 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.