Heenan v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 2007
1 district · 8 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 Brown v. Connecticut Fire Ins. Co. of Hartford, Conn · Kkk Medicine Co. v. Harrington · Elmwood-Utica Houses, Inc. v. Buffalo Sewer Authority · Williams v. Casparis Bros. · Livingston v. Brown
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Gilmer, Texas, “April 19, 1934. “Mr. A. D. Davis, “Wilson, Oklahoma. “Dear Mr. Davis: “I am writing you this letter regarding my indebtedness to you. I acknowledge that I owe you one note in the principal sum of $1150.00, dated in the year 1929. I also owe you the following sums on the following car deals, which you agreed to carry for me, and which payment I guaranteed, viz: C. W. Graham $65.00 Jim Guantt 200.00 R. G. Carriker 200.00 W. E. Posey 142.44 R. D. Sanders 245.43 A. M. Maxwell 220.00 Leonard J. Peden 120.00 “ — the last mentioned obligations totaling $1192.87 in addition to the note of $1150.00. “I am paying you herewith $1.00 on the $1150.00 note and $1.00 on each of the other items. I justly owe you the sum of money provided for in the $1150.00 note and the sum or sums of money provided for in each of the obligations hereinabove set out, and agree to pay same as soon as I possibly can. The indebtedness above mentioned are my own personal obligations, and no one else is responsible therefor. “Yours truly, “C. M. Sewell.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Curry““The account stated constituted a new agreement, became a new obligation and took the place of the prior account. Williams v. Casparis Bros., 113 Okla. 51 , 238 P. 438 . In the absence of fraud or mistake, not pleaded here, Davis, by accepting the written contract, became bound by its recitals. Brown v. Connecticut Fire Ins. Co., 52 Okla. 392 , 153 P. 173 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Curry
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.