Lingham v. Eggleston’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2002 · most notably Sherwood v. Walker (1887), Dobbins v. Edmonds (1885)
1 federal appellate · 35 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The most important fact indicative of an intent that title shall pass is generally-that of delivery. If the goods be completely delivered to the purchaser, it is usually very strong, if not conclusive, evidence of intent that the property shall vest in him, and be at his risk, notwithstanding weighing, measuring, inspection, or some other act is to be done afterwards.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blodgett v. Hovey
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.