Hunt v. Test’s Empirical Analysis
1845
Citation profile
1 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1988
1 district · 15 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 M'Alpin v. May
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is certainly clear law ... that an offer to perform or do an act, which is prevented by the party in whose favor it is to be done, or performed, is, in law, equivalent to a performance, or rather is a valid excuse for not performing it.... [I]t is apparent, that the plaintiff cannot prove that he could certainly have procured this result, ... [Par.] Nor can the defendant object, that the plaintiff does not prove unequivocally, that he could have performed his contract, when the inability to make such proof is caused by his own act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The contract on its face does not import that any unfair, or improper means were to be resorted to.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“do all in his power to prevent the confirmation”
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.