De Clark v. Waters’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 1972
6 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Ordinarily, the pledgee of a promissory note as collateral security is not permitted to compromise with the maker, and accept less in its discharge or satisfaction than the face value of the paper. There may be instances where such a settlement will be upheld — as where, by reason of the fact that the debt is insufficiently secured, and the maker is insolvent, a compromise is advantageous to all parties; but, according to all the authorities, it will be sustained only in extreme cases. [Citing authorities.] Where notes held as collateral are surrendered to the maker by the pledgee at a sum considerably less than their face value, the pledgor has his election to bring an action against the pledgee in tort for wrongfully disposing of the collateral, or against the maker to recover the residue of the face of the notes so surrendered. Coleb. Coll. § 96; Zimpleman v. Veeder, 98 Ill. 613 .””
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.