Casey v. Bingham’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2014
10 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 Bibb v. Allen · United States v. Heth · Anderson v. Carkins · Twenty per Cent. Cases · St Louis Hay Grain Company v. United States
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this case the restrictions were off the land by the express provisions of the act of April 21, 1904, quoted above. The plaintiff could sell the land. The statute as to this land gave him power to sell. The contract that he made before filing, while executed in part, had not been completed, and the plaintiff had the right to refuse to complete it. If he had refused to make the deed, he could not have been compelled to do so; but he made the deed. The consideration he received at the time he made the deed was doubtless the main, if not the only, incentive which caused him to make it. The consideration then paid was considerably more than the appraised value of the land. A deed made at the time this one was made, for the consideration then paid, would doubtless have been good. Is the fact that there had been a prior contract sufficient to invalidate this deed? It must be remembered that there was nothing immoral in the prior contract, and that it violated no statute. It is not a case where an immoral consideration enters into [the transaction and taints every part of it. Plaintiff made the deed when it was lawful to make it, and received a lawful consideration. The deed was good and carried the title to the defendant Lewis. At the time the deed was made the government and the tribe no longer had any interest in the land.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McKeever v. Carter““Every deed executed before or for the making of which a contract or agreement was entered into before the removal of restrictions, be and the same is hereby, declared void.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McKeever v. Carter“It is a rule of construction that statutes will not be given a retroactive effect if any other reasonable construction is possible.”
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.