Galbraith v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 1949
2 federal appellate · 12 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 Krohn v. Bantz · Martz v. Putnam · Noakes v. Morey · Hudnut v. Weir · Dehority v. Paxson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Anything, however small in value, which is given in earnest or part payment will take the transaction out of the statute. But an agreement to apply a precedent debt in payment will not relieve the transaction from the operation of the. statute, unless a receipt or credit'is actually given.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Where a sale of goods is made on an agreement that the price shall be applied to the payment of the precedent debt, such price must be actually applied, by receipt or otherwise, in order to bring it within the exception in the statute.””
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.