Bagg v. Jerome’s Empirical Analysis
1859
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 1940
13 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““At common law all contracts in violation of law are void. The law, in such cases, will not aid either party, but leaves them to reap the reward of their own folly. Hence, if the contract is executory it will not enforce it, or give damages for a non-performance; and if executed it will not undo what the parties themselves have done, by divesting the title that has passed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“££ When the instrument, on its face, is one the law will not sanction against creditors, it is the duty of the court to pronounce it fraudulent as to them; but the court cannot look dehors the instrument for that purpose.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wood v. Eldredge
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.