Walker v. Wood’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1992 · most notably Giles v. Vette (1924), 123 Ill. App. 3d 95 - Phillips & Arnold, Inc. v. Frederick J. Borgsmiller, Inc. (1984)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedWalker v. Wood
Relationships
Relies on Hayward v. Burke · Rayburn v. Day · Kennedy v. Hall
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court sustained demurrers to the several amended pleas of the defendants, setting up the facts, hereinbefore stated, of the agreement by the corporation with the firm to pay the outstanding indebtedness, the notice to the plaintiffs of the assumption of such obligation, and the proof of the claim by plaintiffs against the corporation before the receiver, and the court also modified propositions of law submitted by the defendants that such facts released and discharged the defendants. By the modification the court held that such facts were all proper to be considered upon the question of fact whether the plaintiffs did release and discharge the defendants and accept the corporation as their debtor, but that they were not necessarily conclusive as a matter of law. We regard the modification as correct. The assumption of outstanding liabilities by the corporation was a matter of agreement between it and the defendants, which could not affect the rights of the plaintiffs unless they assented to it in some way which amounted to an agreement to accept the corporation as alone liable for the indebtedness. It is essential to a novation that all the parties to the contract for which the new one is substituted consent to it. (16 Am. & Eng. Ency. of Law, 867; Hayward v. Burke, 151 Ill. 121 .) The assent or agreement may be either express or implied, but neither knowledge of the arrangement between the corporation and the firm, nor the partial payment of the debt, nor a demand for t”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.