Breed v. Hillhouse’s Empirical Analysis
1829
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2003 · most notably Szymanska v. Equitable Life Insurance (1936), Hungerford v. O'Brien (1887)
31 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 Thornton v. Wynn
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The agreement in question to forbear, was clearly proved, on a principle of probable presumption, which harmonizes with common sense and is conformed to experience; and both reason and experience bear concurrent testimony to the inference of a consideration in this case. The acceptance of the- indorsed guaranty by the plaintiff, and his consequent forbearance, prove the agreement in question, and are incompatible with any other supposition.””
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.