Bigler v. Waller’s Empirical Analysis
79 U.S. 142 · 1870
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1949
3 federal appellate · 1 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.
Relationships
Relies on Bacon v. Hart · Ward v. State of Maryland
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On the citation in this case is the following indorsement: ‘I hereby acknowledge service of the within citation. James Alfred Jones, Counsel for Defendants in this Case in the Circuit Court of the United States of the District of Virginia.’ Viewed in any reasonable light, it seems to -the court that the attorney knew that the appeal was allowed by the court, and was prosecuted by the appellant, which is the only purpose intended to be effected by the citation. Having been counsel in the case, the party signing that certificate must have known that the suit had been revived, and that proceeding took place before the final decree was entered. Such a service would be sufficient beyond all doubt if there had been no error in the form of the citation, and, as that objection is a merely formal one, we are all of the opinion that it must be considered as waived by the circumstantial language of the certificate signed without objection by the attorney of record in the circuit court.””
1 later decision 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.