Magee v. Catching’s Empirical Analysis
1857
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 1992
14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Contracts of this nature, stipulating no time for performance, must be performed within a reasonable time. This rule, resting as it does upon sound policy, should never be departed from, merely to relieve against the hardship of a particular case. The law exacts a certain degree of diligence in the assertion of rights; and it has now almost ripened into a maxim, that rights not asserted within a reasonable time, are treated as abandoned, or as surrendered to the opposing party.”
2 later decisions 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.