Steinmetz v. Grennon’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2018
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 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 Bouslog v. Garrett · Heinrich v. Englund · Crawford v. Hutchinson · Field v. . Knapp · Hosford v. . New York Central and Hudson River Rd. Co.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"An account stated involves as a necessary element a promise to pay the balance ascertained to be due. This promise may be express; but if it is not actually expressed the law will imply a promise to pay when the parties agree upon the amount due or when their conduct justifies the inference that they have agreed."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An account stated is an agreement between persons who have had previous transactions of a monetary character fixing the amount due in respect to such transactions and promising payment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“may be express or it may be implied from the conduct of the parties and the circumstances of the case.”
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.