Boyd v. Colgan’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 1970
10 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 Council v. . Sanderlin · Hudson v. Riley · Milich v. Armour Packing Co. · Kansas Electric Utilities Co. v. Bowersock · Edwards v. Gildemeister
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . it is quite correct that a binding contract is not effected where a person merely signifies his willingness to contract with two designated persons and that proffered agreement is accepted by only one of them, . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Allen v. Elwell
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.