Bergman v. Bly’s Empirical Analysis
66 F. 40 · 1895
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1938
3 federal appellate ·
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 Cross v. Allen · McMullen v. . Rafferty · Kallenbach v. Dickinson · Van Keuren v. . Parmelee · Littlefield v. . Littlefield
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When payment has been made upon any demand founded on contract or a written acknowledgment thereof, or promise to pay the same has been made, and signed by the party to be charged, an action may be brought thereon within the time herein limited, after such payment, acknowledgment or promise.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hale v. Wharton
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.