Collar v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 2017
14 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 Bartelott v. International Bank · Miller v. Miller · Wachter v. Albee
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This evidence not only fails to show an acknowledgment on his part to pay a debt, but clearly shows that the deceased did not understand that any indebtedness existed in claimant’s favor against him, in the sense of a legal liability.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dyess v. Rowe
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.