Leonard v. Greenleaf’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 1993
11 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 Auzerais v. Naglee · Comer & Co. v. Way & Edmundson · Matthews v. . Hubbard · Martin v. Heinze · 15 Cal. App. 178 - Vance v. Supreme Lodge of the Fraternal Brotherhood
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The assent to the balance found to be due by the account stated, which may be an express promise, or one implied as a legal conclusion from a • failure to object thereto within a reasonable time, creates a new and independent cause of action, * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Cory““ ‘An account which has been rendered by one to another, containing the balance which is alleged to be due, which balance is assented to or admitted to be a correct account of the debt it represents as due from the debtor [,]’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Cory
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.