Bofinger v. Tuyes’s Empirical Analysis
120 U.S. 198 · 1887
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Fire Insurance Ass'n v. Wickham (1891), George Crossman v. William Burrill (1900)
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 United States v. McLemore · Oglesby v. Attrill · United States v. Child & Co. · Perkins v. Fourniquet
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The technical difficulty that there can be no satisfaction and discharge of a judgment or decree, except by matter of record (Mitchell v. Hawley, 4 Denio, 414 , 47 Am. Dec. 260 ), cannot be interposed. At common law actual payment of a debt of record could not be pleaded in bar of an action for the recovery of the debt. This has been changed by statute both in England and in this country, and no reason can be assigned why an accord and satisfaction should not have the same effect.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Freeman““The right of the defendants to appeal from the decree, and the fact that they had declared their intention to do so, created such a dispute in respect to their liability as made it a proper subject of compromise.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Freeman
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.