O'Brien v. . Fleckenstein’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 1985
23 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
reviewedO'Brien v. Fleckenstein
Relationships
Relies on Weaver v. . Barden · Cary v. . White · Ten Eyck v. . Witbeck · Hubbard v. . Gurney · Westbrook v. . Gleason
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the authorities we think that a new element or consideration was imported into the transaction between the parties; that is to say, by the extension of time upon the preexisting debt and the taking of security to be enforced at the end of that time. The law upon this question is thus stated in Jones on Mortgages (sec. 459): ‘The giving of further time for the payment of an existing debt by a valid agreement, for any period, however short, though it be for a day only, is a valuable consideration and is sufficient to support a mortgage as a purchase for a valuable consideration.’” ( 180 N. Y. 353 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.