Bigby v. Douglas’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably Whatley v. Department of Education (1982), Wheatley v. Glover (1906)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 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 Hull v. Myers · Banks v. Darden · Lumpkin v. Mills · Savannah & Ogeechee Canal Co. v. Shuman · Harris v. Smith
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he General Assembly had in contemplation rights conferred by law upon particular individuals, and not upon the general public .... The rights referred to [in Ga.Code Ann. § 3-704] were such as could be asserted by certain persons, not in their capacity as members of the public who came within the protection of a general law, but as particular ‘individuals’ who were by special enactment expressly designated by name, or who belonged to a designated class . . . . With these strictly personal rights the public at large has no concern. To rights which are conferred by law upon members of the public at large, as such, section [3-704] has no application.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In other words, the General Assembly had in contemplation rights conferred by law upon particular individuals, and not upon the general public, because they sustained a peculiar relation to the incorporators of certain chartered institutions, or were by special enactment given privileges in return for services to be performed by them for the benefit of the public, or were for some other reason entitled to enforce rights which they did not share in common with their fellow citizens.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The evident purpose of [the 20-year statute] is to fix a period of limitation for special cases not provided for by the general statute of limitations, or otherwise, where rights accruing to “individuals” are sought to be enforced. A statutory liability is one that depends for its existence upon the enactment of a statute, and not upon the contract of the parties.”
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.