Biagi v. Howes’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 1926
14 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 Barron v. Deleval · Matter of the N.Y. Cen. H.R.R.R. Co. · Sawyer v. City & County of San Francisco · Roussin v. Stewart · Clarissy v. Metropolitan Fire Department
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This is much the best rule. It is more certain and definite, prevents controversies which, under any other construction, would he likely to arise, and above all accords in our opinion with the intention of those enacting the statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jenkins v. Stephens
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.