Wathen v. Pearce’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2009
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 14 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 Blake v. Stump · Dean v. Eastern Shore Trust Co. · Foley v. William Mason & Son ex rel. Birckhead · Brown v. Southern Grocery Company · Gibney v. Curtis
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In law the term ‘account stated’ is an artificial phrase of precise and definite significance. In 1 C.J.S. Account Stated, sec. 1, page 693, it is thus defined: ‘An account stated is an agreement between parties who have had previous transactions of a monetary character that all the items of the account representing such transactions, and the balance struck, are correct, together with a promise, express or implied, for the payment of such balance.’ Bullen & Leake, Prec. & Pl. 52, n. (a); Alexander’s Brit. Stat. (Coe’s Ed.) 65. An indispensable ingredient of any definition of the term is a definite acknowledgment of a subsisting debt immediately payable to the plaintiff, 1 C.J.S. Account Stated, secs. 1, 14, pages 694, 698.” (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“knowledge of a trade usage will be imputed to persons in the same trade.”
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.