Robinson v. Hirschfelder’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1926
1 federal appellate · 5 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 Magee v. Billingsley · Abraham v. Carter · Batre v. Simpson · Caraway v. Wallace · J. L. & W. G. Browning v. Hamilton ex rel. Stewart
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That an agreement to sell does not become a sale if any term In which the seller must co-operate, or which imposes a liability or duty on him. remains to be performed, such as weighing, measuring, inspecting, and transporting goods to another place, to be there delivered and received. Things not in esse, actual or potential, cannot be the subject of sale.””
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.