Lemmon v. Box’s Empirical Analysis
1857
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2012
1 federal appellate · 23 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.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The main object of the plaintiff, in accepting the order, was not to discharge the debt which the carpenters owed to the defendant, but to pay his own to the carpenters, in a mode which it may be presumed was the most convenient to him; and his leading object being to subserve his own interest, the acceptance must be regarded as an original, not a collateral undertaking, and therefore not within the purview of the statute; and his acceptance, though by parol, must be held as binding. * * * ””
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.