Heeb v. Codifer & Bonnabel, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently June 2008 · most notably Blanchard v. Haber (1928), Ducuy v. Falgoust (1955)
60 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 Pruyn v. Gay · Griffin v. His Creditors
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We agree with the district judge that the forfeiture clause in the agreement was null and void because not warranted in law, was arbitrary, unreasonable, mnd without consideration. The option granted to the vendor to cancel the agreement to sell in case the purchaser defaulted in any of the payments was but declaratory of a legal right which the vendor has in every sale or agreement to sell. “ ‘A resolutory condition is implied in all commutative contracts, to take effect, in case either of the parties do not comply with his engagement.’ C. C., Art. 2046. “ ‘The dissolving condition is that which, when accomplished, operates the revocation of the obligation, placing matters in the same state as though the obligation had not existed.’ C. C., Art. 2045.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"* * * the damages due for delay in the performance of an obligation to pay money are called -interest, the creditor is entitled to these damages without proving any loss and whatever loss he may have suffered, he can recover no more; “For these reasons the forfeiture clause is illegal and void.””
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.