Sage v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1864
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 1935
3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The effect of taking a second note upon the vitality of the'first is sometimes determinable by the law, and sometimes by the contract under which' it was given and received. In the present case the. correspondence of the parties, which went to make up the contract, shows that the. second note was given and received in discharge of the first. Walker sent forward that note to be retained only upon condition of a surrender of the first. Sage was bound to return one or the other. ' By retaining both, he left it with the defendants to say that he had taken the new note upon the conditions Walker required, and the first note must be considered as surrendered, up.” Sage v. Walker, 12 Mich. 425 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Chase v. Gregory · Ellis v. Ballou
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.