Dulaney v. Payne’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 1971
14 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 Secor v. . Sturgis · Phillips v. Bericic · Nickerson v. Rockwell · Walker v. Kimball
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.
“"* * * The contract thus assumes a very simple form: `I promise to pay the debt in one year; but if I do not, I will pay the interest at that time, and so at the end of each and every year until the debt is paid.' Being a promise to pay the debt at one time, and, contingently, to pay the interest at another or some other times, it must be construed as containing distinct promises, giving several causes of action; and these being several in their origin, no subsequent event can make them one and entire. * * *"”
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.