Boggs v. Bush’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 1977 · most notably Hill v. Johnson (1925), Caudill v. Bernheim (1922)
35 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 Anderson v. Dawson · Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Jeffries
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the early and leading case of Harrison v. Talbot, supra, indeed throughout the cases on the subject, it appears that the court may look to extraneous evidence to show the nature of the transaction, to enable it to determine whether the sale was in gross or by the acre, or whether, under the circumstances of the particular case, equity required the granting of the relief.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.