Barron v. Boynton’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2024
2 district · 17 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.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On demand for value received We promise to pay to the order of Mrs. Margaret McFadden of Portland, Me., Thirty two hundred eighty six and 31/100 Dollars with Interest at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum, for such time as said principal sum or any part thereof shall remain unpaid. * * * ‘ ‘Interest to he paid on the first day of each month. “Monthly payments to ' he Fifty dollars* each month.””
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.