Corinthian Lodge v. . Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 1951
4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This principle has been recognized and applied by us in many well considered cases. Tussey v. Owen , 139 N.C. 457 ; Jones v. Mial , 79 N.C. 164 , modified, but not on this point, in 82 N.C. 252 ; Niblett v. Herring , 49 N.C. 262 ; Grandy v. McCleese , 47 N.C. 142 . And it is also well established that when the stipulations imposed by such a contract on the complaining party are in the nature of conditions precedent, a strict compliance may be insisted on. Mizell v. Burnett , 49 N.C. 249 ; Norrington v. Wright , 115 U.S. 188 ; Oakley v. Morton , 11 N.Y. 25 ; Pickering v. Greenwood , 114 Mass. 479 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edgerton v. . Taylor“That one party to a contract cannot maintain an action for its breach without averring and proving a performance of his own antecedent obligations arising on the contract, or some legal excuse for a nonperformance thereof, or, if the stipulations are concurrent, his readiness and ability to perform them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edgerton v. . Taylor
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.