Bailey v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
January 1913
most recently cited
3 state decisions
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Both of these contracts [the contract of sale and the contract to sell] being equally legal and valid, it is obvious that, whenever a dispute arises as to the true character of an agreement, the question is one rather of fact than of law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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