Bulkley v. Devine’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1971
13 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 Colcord v. Alexander · Purinton v. Northern Illinois Railroad
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On the undisputed facts the defense is self-refuting. Can he, having executed the contract, taken possession under it, held possession and paid rent under it, both to his lessor and appellee, now repudiate that contract because it does not definitely describe the house. . . . Extrinsic proof is always competent to identify the subject matter of a contract, if necessary. ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pierson v. Dorff
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.