Bicknell v. Henry’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 2012
6 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 Ordway v. Downey · Gay v. Schaefer
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.
“It is plain that Mr. Churchill knew of the claim of the plaintiffs upon the sheep, knew the amount of the claim, and that the telegram was a refusal to permit delivery of the sheep unless the claim was paid or assumed. He thereupon took the sheep. It is true he made no verbal or written promise to assume or pay the note, but he quietly took the sheep. He acted upon the authority of the telegram, and is bound thereby as much so as if he had answered back in writing: “I will take the sheep and pay the note.””
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.