Needs v. Hebener’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
3
states following
March 2009
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Booe v. Shadrick · Quick v. Crane · State v. Beason · Yazzie v. Sullivent · Suitts v. First Security Bank of Idaho, N.A.
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.
“An account stated is a document, a writing, which exhibits the state of account between [the] parties and the balance owed one to the other, and when assented to, either expressly or impliedly, it becomes a new contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grover v. Wadsworth
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.