Cleland v. Hostetter’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2021
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 Scott v. Hickman · Shepherd v. Thompson · State ex rel. Foy v. Austin Capital Management, Ltd. · Norton v. Shepard · Gale & Elliott v. Tuolumne Water Co.
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.
““So in the concurring opinion of Mr. Justice Brewer, then a member of the Supreme Court of Kansas, that learned jurist emphatically disposes of the suggestion that an acknowledgment must under the Kansas statute evince a willingness to pay. He quotes this form of acknowledgment: ‘I owe that debt, I admit it is an existing and just claim upon me; but I never will pay it.” ‘Here,’ says the learned justice, ‘there is the express and clear acknowledgment of an existing debt, but there is not only nothing indicating a willingness to pay but on the contrary an express refusal to pay. Is such an acknowledgment within the statute? Unhesitatingly I answer Yes.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.