Linn v. Sigsbee’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably 8 Ill. 2d 351 - Bauer v. Sawyer (1956), Merchants National Bank v. Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co. (1971)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 63 state decisions — followed in 14 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.
Relationships
Relies on Richardson v. Gere
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule is well settled that any partial restraint of trade, or an agreement not to transact business at specified places, or with particular persons, or beyond a limited distance, or not to practice medicine within reasonable bounds, if there be some legal consideration for the restraint, will not invalidate the agreement. If there is a reasonable limitation only, and a consideration capable of supporting the agreement, it will be upheld. . . . The contract must be construed by the court and its reasonable character and the consideration for it, determined.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.