Bigelow v. Forrest’s Empirical Analysis
76 U.S. 339 · 1869
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably City of Greenwood v. Peacock (1966), Libretti v. United States (1995)
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 state decisions — followed in 17 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.
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“followed by more general words, justifies the inference that the other trespasses and wrongs mentioned are trespasses and wrongs ejusdem generis, or of the same nature as those which has been previously specified”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.”
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.