Bingham v. Lipman’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 1941
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 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 Brown v. Swineford · Conaughty v. . Nichols · Denver Ry Co v. Harris · Rice v. Coolidge · Miller v. Bayer
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And finally it is contended that the verdict is insufficient to support the judgment, because it is against the corporation only, and not against the other defendants, who are admitted to have been its managing agents, and through whose conduct it became liable, if at all. This apparent inconsistency was a proper subject for consideration by the trial court on the motion for a new trial, but it does not render the verdict void. The action is for tort, and the jury had authority to render a verdict against all or any of the defendants. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bowles v. Creason
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.