Belger v. . Dinsmore’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2023 · most notably Hart v. Pennsylvania Railroad (1884), Mobile & Montgomery Railway Co. v. Jurey (1884)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 37 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The presumption of law is that a party receiving an instrument, in the transaction of any business, is acquainted with its contents.””
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.