Steele v. Souder’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 1959
1 federal appellate · 18 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 Winchell v. . Hicks · Harper v. . Fairley · Van Keuren v. . Parmelee · Bush v. New Jersey & New York Transit Co. · McLaren v. . McMartin
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In any case founded on contract when any part of the principal or interest shall have been paid, or an acknowledgment of an existing liability, debt or claim or any promise to pay the same shall have been made, an action may be brought in such case within the period prescribed for the same, after such payment, acknowledgment or promise; but such acknowledgment or promise must be in writing, signed by the party to be charged thereby.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McKennon v. McKennon““No valid reason exists why payment should be more potent than acknowledgment or promise. Indeed, payment was treated by the courts as simply an evidence of acknowledgment."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Good v. Ehrlich
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.