McIsaac v. Hale’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Brauer v. Freccia (1970), Lach v. Cahill (1951)
28 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 Redman v. Ætna Insurance · First Ecclesiastical Society v. Besse · Liberman v. Beckwith · Metropolitan L. I. Co. v. Goodman
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.
“A condition precedent is one which must be performed before the agreement of the parties becomes a valid and binding contract . . . . Whether a condition is precedent, depends upon the intent of the parties, and this is to be gathered from the context, read under the rules governing the interpretation and construction of writings.”
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.