Bruner v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently January 2006 · most notably Rex v. Warner (1958), Duke v. Housen (1979)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 48 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Frost v. Witter · Patterson v. . Patterson · Veeder v. . Baker · Strong v. Lewis · John Shillito Co. v. Richardson
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The true test, therefore, to determine when a cause of action has accrued is to ascertain the time when plaintiff could first have maintained his action to a successful result.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The place where it arises is the place where some court has jurisdiction of the subject-matter and the party against whom the cause of action has arisen. The cases referred to holding that the cause of action arises where the contract was entered into, ignore the true definition of a cause of action and confuse it with the subject of the action. The execution of the note is but a part of the transaction out of which the cause of action arises; the failure to keep the obligation and to perform the promise is the main thing which creates the cause of action and unless there be such a failure no cause of action ever arises. ... A cause of action cannot be said to have arisen until if actually exists. In other words, a cause of action has not arisen until it has accrued. The words are synonymous. The subject of the action in this case was the promissory note and mortgage. They were executed in Kansas. The subject of the action originated in Kansas, but there was no cause of action until the maker failed to pay at maturity.””
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.