Nelson v. Flagg’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 1979
13 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 Binnian v. Jennings · Eaton v. Whitmore
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But, treating the question as one heretofore undetermined by this court, we think that there are all the elements of a valid contract to be gathered from the indorsement under consideration. The effect of the indorsement-in this case, in the light of the finding that it was at the maker’s request and with his consent, was to postpone the time of payment for one year. The consideration flowing to the holder was the implied promise of the maker to pay interest during the full period of the extension at the rate expressed in the instrument; and the promise of the holder to forbear suit for a definite period constituted a good consideration for the agreement upon the part of the maker to pay interest for such full period.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stankey v. Godwin
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.