Pixley v. Boynton’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 1916 · most notably Hogston v. Bell (1916), Pearce v. Foote (1885)
1 federal appellate · 27 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The intent of the parties gives character to the transaction and if either party contracted in good faith he is entitled to the benefit of his contract, no matter what may have been the secret purpose or intent of the other party.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Milmine
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.