Bonfils v. Hayes’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
4 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 1984 · most notably State v. Manley (1969), People v. Buckner (1972)
4 district · 24 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 Tulare Irrigation District v. Shepard · Chesnut v. Shane's Lessee · Clark v. American Cannel Coal Co. · Jones v. Aspen Hardware Co. · Fuller v. . Rowe
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is claimed that at least there was a corporation de facto. To constitute a corporation de facto there must be three elements: (1) A law under which it may lawfully be formed; (2) A bona fide attempt to form it according to law; (3) A user or attempt to use its corporate powers. Jones v. Aspen Hdw. Co., 21 Colo. 263, 269 , 40 Pac. 457 , 29 L.R.A. 143 , 52 Am. St. Rep. 220 ; Duggan v. Colo. M. & S. Co., 11 Colo. 113, 115 , 17 Pac. 105 ; Fisher v. Pioneer Co., 62 Colo. 538, 546 , 163 Pac. 851 ; Tulare Irr. Dist. v. Shepard, 185 U.S. 1 , 22 Sup. Ct. 531, 46 L. Ed. 773 ; Clark v. Am. C. Coal Co., 165 Ind. 213 , 73 N.E. 1083 , 112 Am. St. Rep. 217 ; 14 C.J. 214, and cases there collected.””
1 later decision 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.