Bisbee v. McAllen’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 1990
11 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 Pratt v. . Short · Woods & Co. v. Armstrong · First Division of the St. Paul & Pacific Rail Road v. Parcher · Lewis v. Welch · Smith v. Arnold
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The weighing or measuring is not a collateral matter, but is directly involved in the act of selling and the contract of sale. It regulates the quantity to be delivered and the amount to be paid. And where the statute has in view the prevention of fraud by the seller, then, though there be nothing but a penalty, a contract which infringes the statute cannot be upheld .... Here the intent of the statute is to clearly prevent sales by unproved and unsealed scales or measure, and its object is undoubtedly to protect the public from fraud or imposition by the use of false or inaccurate balances and measurements.”
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.