Bigelow v. . Benedict’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1968 · most notably Embrey v. Jemison (1889), In Re the Arbitration Between Western Union Telegraph Co. & American Communications Ass'n (1949)
1 federal appellate · 33 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where an optional contract' for the sale of property is made, and there is no intention on the one side to sell or deliver the property, or on the other to buy or take it, but merely that the difference should be paid according to the fluctuation in market values, the contract would be a wager within the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Embrey v. Jemison
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.