Beard v. Horton’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 1999
11 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 Young & Son v. Lehman, Durr & Co. · Ticonic Bank v. Smiley · Walker v. Smith · Evans v. Billingsley's Adm'r · Mobile & Montgomery Railway Co. v. Clanton
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A party compelled, in order to preserve his rights, to pay the debt of another, may recover the amount so paid, from the person whose duty it was to have paid the debt. Walker v. Smith, 28 Ala. 569 . Also, where a person is compelled by operation of law to pay a debt, which another in equity and good conscience ought to pay, he may recover the amount of such person. Ticonic Bank v. Smiley, 27 Me. 225 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The principle on which the case last cited rests is, that where a person owes a debt, and by any trick, deceit or contrivance, causes another to pay it, the party paying it may maintain an action against such person for money paid, and the means used to bring about such payment are immaterial.””
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.