Biggs v. Mays’s Empirical Analysis
125 F.2d 693 · 1942
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2016 · most notably Pfister v. Northern Illinois Finance Corp. (1942), Rosiello v. Sellman (1965)
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Wayne United Gas Co. v. Owens-Illinois Glass Co. · Montgomery Bell v. James Morrison Anthony Butler and Jonathan Taylor · Lesser v. Gray · Parker v. Carter · Ginsberg v. Lindel
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The acknowledgment of a debt in the ordinary course of business takes it out of the statute of limitations because when the acknowledgment is voluntarily made it is an admission of the debt and of the liability of the debtor to pay. From this the law implies a promise to pay. No such inference can be drawn when the very purpose of listing the debt, as in a bankruptcy proceeding, is to secure the discharge of that very debt.[ 33 ]”
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.