Bignall v. Gould’s Empirical Analysis
119 U.S. 495 · 1886
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1976 · most notably Sun Printing Publishing Association v. William L Moore (1902), Wise v. United States (1919)
17 federal appellate · 5 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 Watts v. Camors · Watt's Ex'rs. v. Sheppard · Port v. Jackson · Gobble v. Linder
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By the rules now established, at law, as well as in equity, the sum of $10,000, named in this bond, is a penalty only, and not liquidated damages.””
2 later decisions 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.