Patton v. Mills’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 2006
1 district · 7 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 Barker v. . Bradley · Wilson v. Bevans · Britton v. Angier · Brown ex rel. Clardy v. Brown · McCreary v. Van Hook's Executors
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘It may, indeed, be stated as a general rule that, wherever .the main purpose and object of the promisor is not to answer for another, but tó subserve some purpose of his own, his promise is not within the statute,'' although it may be in form a promise to pay the debt of another, and although the performance of it may incidentally have the effect of ex-, tinguishing the liability of another.’ ” (p. 169.) , ¡”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.