Wiggins v. Burkham’s Empirical Analysis
77 U.S. 129 · 1869
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 7 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2010 · most notably Kilbourn v. Sunderland (1889), Leather Manufacturers' Bank v. Morgan (1886)
35 federal appellate · 7 district · 45 state decisions — followed in 21 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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The principle which lies at the foundation of evidence of this kind is that the evidence; of the party to whom the account is sent warrants the inference of an admission of its correctness. This inference is more or less strong according to tile circumstances of the case. It may he repelled by showing facts which are inconsistent with it. as that the party was absent from home, suffering from illness, or expected shortly to see the other party, and intended, and preferred, to make his objections in person. Other circumstances of a like character may be readily imagined.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.