Thomas v. Ehrmantraut’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 2005
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.
Relationships
Relies on Davis v. Patrick · Charles Broadway Rouss, Inc. v. Cooper · Bethesda Salvage Co. v. Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. · National Surety Co. v. Jackson County Bank · 42 App. D.C. 272 - Mathews v. Libbey Bros.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The maker of a [personal, new and direct promise to pay], though it be merely verbal, is not relieved of the obligation to pay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nec v. Nmcg
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.