Bird v. Lanius’s Empirical Analysis
1856
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 1959 · most notably Ransdel v. Moore (1899), Lake Erie & Western Railway Co. v. Fix (1882)
30 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 Salmon v. Brown · Britzell v. Fryberger
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defendants ask the Court to charge the jury that if money is borrowed, or goods bought, or any other contract made by one partner upon his own exclusive credit, he alone is liable therefor, and the partnership, although the money, property, or other contract, is for their proper use and benefit or is applied thereto, will in no manner be liable therefor . . . The instruction stated the law correctly.””
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.