Layman v. Layman’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 1985
5 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 Montgomery Bell v. James Morrison Anthony Butler and Jonathan Taylor · 77 Cal. App. 367 - People Ex Rel. Webb v. Honey Lake Valley Irrigation District · Addison v. Stafford · Defreest v. . Warner · Quackenbush v. Isley
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘There are also cases where, although the acknowledgment or promise was not made directly to the creditor or his agent, yet being made for the purpose of deriving, and having derived, an advantage therefrom, it is, in effect, held that he is estopped from setting up the statute, upon the ground that he cannot be allowed to take the benefit of the acknowledgment and then repudiate its obligation. That is, where a debtor under such circumstances derives an advantage from the acknowledgment, he is treated as having intended that it should be accepted as such, and confided in by the creditor.’” (171 Va. page 325)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bickers v. Pinnell
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.