Moore v. McHaney’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 1987
3 federal appellate · 17 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 White v. . Rintoul · Bless v. Jenkins · Nelson v. Brown · Citizens Bank of Senath v. Douglass · Beekman Lumber Co. v. Acme Harvester Co.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a direct and unqualified promise to pay the debt of another, though the primary debt still subsists, is to be regarded as original in character and unaffected by the statute, when the promise is founded upon a new and independent consideration moving to the promisor and beneficial to him, and which is the motive therefor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“No action shall be brought ... to charge any person upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default or miscarriage of another person ... unless the agreement upon which the action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing and signed by the party to be charged therewith....”
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.