Myrick v. Purcell’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 1943
12 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 Davis v. Brown · Comstock v. . Hier · Thayer v. . Manley · McNamara v. Gargett · Decker v. . Mathews
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.
““Instruments executed at the same time, for the same purpose, and in the course of the same transaction, are, in the eye of the law, one instrument, and will be read and construed together, as if they were as much one in form as they are in substance. . . . This principle is applied to cases where negotiable instruments and a written agreement are executed at the same time by the same parties. The resulting contract is to be determined by a Construction of both in accordance with conventional rules. ... If, as a result of such construction, the bill or note is payable out of funds to be raised or collected, liability thereon does not attach until the funds have been raised.” Many cases are cited in the opinion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Seaman v. McNamara
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.