Baker v. Christy’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 1995
1 federal appellate · 11 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 Hanson v. Towle · Elder v. Dyer · Olatmanns v. Glenn · Cosandier v. Junod · Andrew v. Kennedy
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.
““In any case founded on contract, when any part of the principal or interest shall have been paid, or an acknowledgment of an existing liability, debt or claim, or any promise to pay the same shall have been made, an action may be brought in such case within the period prescribed for the same, after such payment, acknowledgment or promise; but such acknowledgment of promise must be in writing, signed by the party to be charged thereby.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Now, certainly these letters acknowledge an existing liability. Another fact which influences this court to some extent is that this law was not made for lawyers. It was ; made to govern the action of laymen. A 'lawyer would probably, but most of them do not, be more definite, and fix the amount and the date of the note and say he hereby makes acknowledgment that he owes this debt, but this law was made for laymen, and a man who writes a letter as this man has written, we are satisfied, was convinced at the time he wrote the letter that he was acknowledging the debt. He had no other thought in his mind.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A general reference to an indebtedness of the author contained in a letter addressed to attorneys for creditor, and expressions in such letter of a desire or purpose to raise and pay money to one who was the holder of an obligation, is not such an acknowledgment as will remove the bar of the statute of limitations. To be sufficient, such acknowledgment must be a direct and unequivocal admission of a present existing debt upon which the party signing the admission is liable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bell v. Bockas
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.