Bigelow v. Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co.’s Empirical Analysis
225 U.S. 111 · 1912
Citation profile
223 federal appellate · 69 district · 226 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 721 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2019 · most notably Allen v. McCurry (1980), Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore (1979)
223 federal appellate · 69 district · 226 state decisions — followed in 34 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedOld Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. v. Bigelow
Relationships
Relies on Pennoyer v. Neff · Hurtado v. People of the State of California · Huntington v. Attrill · Southern Pacific Railroad v. United States · Ex parte Virginia
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 721 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a principle of general elementary law that the estoppel of a judgment must be mutual.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“". . . . The unilateral character of the estoppel of an adjudication in such cases is justified by the injustice which would result in allowing a recovery against a defendant for conduct of another, when that other has been exonerated in a direct suit. . . . ."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State.”
3 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.