Bergin v. Haight’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 1941
2 federal appellate · 21 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 Johnson v. Waters · Pico v. Cohn · Baker v. Humphrey · Griffith v. Godey · West v. Waddill
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The principal point made by appellant is that the evidence does not justify the finding of the fraud charged, but after a careful consideration of the facts and'circumstances of the case, we cannot say that they would not justify a finding that the defendant Haight procured the appointment of Sander, and employed the proceedings in probate for the purpose of securing the title in himself; that he, in fact, administered upon the estate and through Gordon became a purchaser at his own sale.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bridges v. Rea
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.