Scriba v. Neely’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
June 1921
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Winter v. Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythias · Halsa v. Halsa · Moss v. Green · Williams v. Jensen · Houck v. Frisbee
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Consideration means not so much that one party is profited as that the other abandons some legal right in the present, or limits his legal freedom of action in the future as an inducement for the act or promise for the first. It does not matter whether the party accepting the consideration has any actual benefit thereby or not. It is enough that he accepts it, and that the party giving it does thereby undertake some burden or lose something which in contemplation of law may be of value.”
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.