Bigler v. . Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently July 1967 · most notably Strasbourger v. . Leerburger (1922), 2 E.H. Smith 558 - Ziehen v. . Smith (1896)
6 federal appellate · 42 state decisions — followed in 12 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““However positively a vendee may have refused to perform his contract, and however insufficient the reason assigned for his refusal, he cannot be subjected to damages without showing that he would have received what he contracted for, had he performed. Heron v. Hoffman, 3 Rawle, 393 , 400; Bank of Columbia v. Hagner, 1 Pet. 464 ; Travor v. Halsted, 23 Wend. 66 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The refusal of the defendant to perform although it obviated the necessity of a formal tender of a deed, did not dispense with the necessity of showing that the plaintiff was able, ready and willing to perform, and ordinarily this requires that the deed called for by the contract should be prepared and ready for delivery.””
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.