Boyce and Henry v. Timothy Edwards’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Tlie distinction between an action on a bill, as an accepted bill, and one lounded on a broach of jiromise to accept, seems not to have been adverted to. but the evidence necessary to support, the one or the other is materially different;. To maintain the former, as has been already shown, the promise must be applied to the particular bill alleged In the declaration to have been accepted. !u the latter the evidence niay be of a more general character, and the authority to draw may be collected from circumstances, and extended ro all bills coming’ fairly within the scope of the promise.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Exchange Bank v. Hubbard

2. ““ That a letter written within a reasonable time before or after the date of a bill of exchange, describing it in terms not to be mistaken, and promising to accept it, is, if shown to the person who afterwards takes the bill on the credit of the letter, a virtual acceptance binding the person who makes the promise.” Coolidge v. Payson, 2 Wheat. 66 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State Nat. Bank of Lincoln v. Young