Philp v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2018
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 Allen v. Hillman · Pool's v. Relfe
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.
“The courts of the several states have adopted different rules of construction for their statutes of limitation, but our court has uniformly held that, in order to remove the bar of the statute, the acknowledgment of the debt and the promise to pay must be definite and unequivocal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“written to serve as an acknowledgment or promise of a debt in order to prevent the bar of the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no express and definite acknowledgment of the debt, ... [nor] an express promise to pay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.