Bissell v. Heyward’s Empirical Analysis
96 U.S. 580 · 1877
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1946 · most notably In re Ayers (1887), Sra v. State of Minnesota (1946)
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 13 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 Legal Tender Cases Knox v. Lee Parker · Stewart v. Salamon · Dooley v. Smith
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * The execution of the contract (with the partial payment thereon) was a transfer in equity of the title of the land to Bissell; leaving in the representatives of William C. Heyward simply a naked title as trustee for Bissell, to be conveyed upon performance on his part.””
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.