Corbin v. County of Black Hawk’s Empirical Analysis
105 U.S. 659 · 1881
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1948 · most notably New Orleans v. Benjamin (1894), Mexican Nat Co v. Davidson Davidson (1895)
27 federal appellate · 1 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 Mullen v. Torrance · Turner v. Bank of North America · Bushnell v. Kennedy · The President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States v. Henry K William
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The contents of a contract, as a cbose in action, in the sense of section 629, Rev. St. [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 503], are the rights created by it in favor of a party in whose behalf stipulations are made in it which he has a right to enforce in a suit founded on the contract; and a suit to enforce such stipulations is a suit to recover such contents.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Hor shall, any circuit or district court have cognizance of any suit founded on a contract in favor of an assignee, unless a suit might have been prosecuted in such court to recover thereon, if no assignment had been made, except in cases of promissory notes, negotiable by the law-merchant, and bills of exchange. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““'.Che obligation or the promise contained in a contract is its contents, when suit is brought to enforce such obligation.””
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.