Bear v. Heasley’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2007
18 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 Watson v. Jones · Hyde v. Woods · People v. Dawell · Chase v. Cheney · Lamb v. Cain
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A secret combination, in the sense of the constitution, is a secret league or confederation of persons holding principles and laws at variance with the word of God, and infringing upon the natural, social, political, or religous rights of those outside its pale. “Any member or minister of our church found in connection with such combination shall be dealt with as in other cases of disobedience to the order and discipline of the church in case of members, as found on page 28 of discipline in answer to the third question of section 3, chapter IV., and in case of ministers, as found in chapter VI., section 13, page 65.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Russie v. Brazzell
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.