Henderson v. McRae’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2008
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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 Petrie v. Torrent · Brunswick & Western Railway Co. v. Clem
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.
““In matters of accord and satisfaction, there is a well-defined and easily-recognized distinction between two classes of agreements: “1. Where the agreement of the creditor is to accept the performance of the debtor’s new promise or agreement in satisfaction of the demand. “2. Where such promise or agreement itself, based upon sufficient consideration, is accepted in satisfaction of the demand. 2 Chitty on Contracts (11th Am. Ed.), p, 1124. “And in this class of cases it must clearly appear that the intention of the party was to accept such promise, and not the performance, in satisfaction of the original demand. In the first class of cases the accord must be fully executed to bar an action on the original demand. 1 Cyc. p. 312, and cases cited. In the second class the original demand is extinguished, and cannot be the foundation of an action. ’ ’”
2 later decisions 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.