Pickersgill v. Lahens’s Empirical Analysis
82 U.S. 140 · 1872
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1929
2 federal appellate · 8 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 Bradley v. Burwell
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““whose duty is measured alone by the legal force of the bond, and who is under no moral obligation whatever to pay the obligee, independent of his covenant, and consequently there is nothing- on which to found an equity for the Interposition of a court of chancery.?’ Pickersgill v. Lahens, 15 Wall. 140 , 144, 21 L. Ed. 119 .”
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.