Sawyer v. Colgan’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 1944 · most notably Bradley Co. v. Ridgeway (1936), Irvine v. Bossen (1944)
2 federal appellate · 24 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 Lincoln County v. Luning · United States v. State of North Carolina · Carr v. State ex rel. Coetlosquet · Humbert v. Dunn · Freehill v. Chamberlain
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We do not understand this to he the law as applicable to this case. According to the act of April 25, 1863, * * * no action could be maintained against the city on these bonds or coupons. By law, it was the duty of the city to make provision for the payment of the bonds and coupons according to the statute under which they were issued; and, by omitting to perform such duty, the city -could not create the defense of the statute of limitations. Not until the funds were in the treasury, properly applicable, would the statute begin to run. Not until that period would the petitioner have any right of action or proceeding against the treasurer. The contrary view would place it in the power of a municipality in many eases to avoid all payment of its debts, because if, by concert of action, each officer should omit to perform his duty, the time consumed in compelling each to perform such duty might be made to consume all the period of the statute before the funds would reach the treasury. We do not think the legislature intended such result.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is a general rule that when payment is provided for out of a particular fund, or in a particular way, the debtor cannot plead the statute of limitations without showing that the particular fund has been provided, or the method pursued.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.