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Hanson v. Towle’s Empirical Analysis

1877

Citation profile

34
cited by 34 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
7
states following
March 1984
most recently cited

31 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 34 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1984 · most notably Scott v. Hickman (1884), Van Diest v. Towle (1947)

31 state decisions

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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 Cape Girardeau County ex rel. Road & Canal Fund v. Harbison · Wilcox v. Williams · Boyd v. Hurlbut · Peck v. Botsford · McKinzie v. Hill

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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““A mere reference to the indebtedness, although consistent with its existing validity, and implying no disposition to question its binding obligation, or a suggestion of some action in reference to it, is not such an ‘acknowledgment’ as is contemplated by the statute. This must be an unqualified and direct admission of a present-subsisting debt on which the party is liable, and which he is willing to pay.” (p. 281.)”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Richards v. Hayden · Corbett v. Hoss
  2. ““No executor or administrator, after having given notice of his appointment as provided in this act, shall be held to answer to the suit of any creditor of the deceased unless it be commenced within three years from the time of his giving bond.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Robertson v. Tarry

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.