Collins v. Thayer’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 1911
9 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The contract is not absolutely, void, as are contracts that are prohibited to be made by the statute. * * * But such a contract is voidable at the will of either party, unless so far executed as to take it out of the operation of the statute'. It then follows that the statute of limitations did not begin to run until one party or the other brought it to an end. If * * * Collins notified appellee that, from the time he mentioned, he and his brother would not be bound by the contract, it was then at an end, and appellee had no right further to rely upon the agreement; and the statute began at that time to run, and would bar an action to recover back the purchase money at the end of five years from that date. ””
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.