Barnes v. Mid-Continent Casualty Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2003 · most notably Delhomme Industries, Inc. v. Houston Beechcraft, Inc. (1982), Sloan v. Employers Casualty Insurance (1974)
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 14 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 Wolf v. Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Association · Lighthouse for the Blind v. Miller · Allen v. Hartford Fire Insurance · Attebery v. M. F. A. Mutual Insurance · Manning v. Woods, Inc.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An accord and satisfaction is the adjustment of a disagreement as to what is due from one party to another and the payment of the agreed amount.” (Syl. ¶ 1) “The mere payment by a debtor of a amount denominated a ‘balance’ upon an account rendered and its retention by the creditor do not constitute an accord and satisfaction.” (Syl. ¶ 2) “To constitute such payment an accord and satisfaction, it must be offered as full satisfaction of a claim, and accompanied by such declarations, or under such circumstances, as would amount to a condition that, if accepted by the creditor, it would be in full satisfaction of the debt.” (Syl. ¶ 3)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kohn v. Babb
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.