Gorrill v. Goff’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2002
16 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 Jordan v. Austin Securities Co. · Pessemier v. Zeller · Jackson v. Longwell · Good v. Ehrlich · Hayes v. Reid
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘From this statute it is apparent three things may toll the statute of limitations. One is a payment. The others are acknowledgment of the debt in writing or a promise in writing to pay the debt, each signed by the party to be charged thereby. A payment obviously may be made otherwise than in writing. A payment, like any other act, may be ratified.’ ” 184 Kan. at 328 (quoting Gorrill, 148 Kan. at 769 ).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In Wood on Limitations, third edition, section 97, the rule is stated in the following language: “ ‘In order to make a money payment a part payment within the statute, it must be shown to be a payment of a portion of an admitted debt, and paid to and accepted by the creditor as such, accompanied by circumstances amounting to an absolute and unqualified acknowledgment of more being due, from which a promise may be inferred to pay the remainder. In order to have that effect, • it must . . . appear . . . that the payment was made under such circumstances as warrant a jury in finding an implied promise to pay the balance; and if the payment was made under such circumstances as to rebut any such promise, it does not affect the operation of the statute.’ ” (My emphasis.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fisher v. Pendleton““In any case founded on contract, when any part of the principal or interest shall have been paid, or an acknowledgment of an existing liability, debt or claim, or any promise to pay the same, shall have been made, an action may be brought in such case within the period prescribed for the same, after such payment, acknowledgment or promise; but such acknowledgment or promise must be in writing, signed by the party to be charged thereby.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fisher v. Pendleton
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.