Bundrant v. Boyce’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 1994
21 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 Schmueckle v. Waters · Williams v. Markland · Carr v. Hays · Martin v. Murphy · Cunningham v. Gwinn
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The money, the subject of the contract, was delivered to the church, and was to be retained until the happening of a certain event. The church had a present interest in it, the right to use it as stipulated. That interest ceased or became absolute upon the doing or not doing of a certain act of the obligee. The demand stipulated for never having been made, the right to retain the money, so far as that right is to be determined upon the contract in suit, became absolute in the church. The liability of [the church] was not limited to an event which might happen after the death of the obliges. At the expiration of five years the payee of the note had the option to treat the note as a nullity or to enforce it. [The payee's] failure to exercise the right to enforce it was, in effect, a renunciation of the lability of [the church].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Newman v. Huff
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.