Graves v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 state decisions

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The whole testimony satisfies us that the transactions between Mahier and plaintiffs were carried on in open account, extending over a series of years, and varying in. the balances shown, and that the mortgage note was really held as a continuing collateral security for this account. “The acknowledgments deducible from the letters may, and probably do, refer to the debt thus due in open account, and do not operate as an acknowledgment of the note itself, sufficient to interrupt prescription thereon.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pelican State Bank v. Bogle