Edgington v. Edgington’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 1996
3 federal appellate · 8 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 Hall v. Cordell · Boro v. Hidell · Turcott v. Railroad · Erkman v. Carnes · First National Bank of Geneva v. Shaw
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But where there is nothing to show that the parties had in view, in respect to the execution of the” contract, any other law than the law of the place of performance, that law must determine the rights 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.