Schnell v. . Perlmon’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 1973 · most notably Woollard v. Schaffer Stores Co. (1936), Hudson v. Yonkers Fruit Co. (1932)
2 federal appellate · 25 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 Fire Insurance Ass'n v. Wickham · Fuller v. . Kemp · 2 E.H. Smith 326 - Nassoiy v. . Tomlinson · Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. Clark · Jaffray v. . Davis
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule of law is well established, undoubtedly, that where a liquidated sum is due, the payment of part only, although accepted in satisfaction is not, for want of consideration, a discharge of the entire indebtedness.””
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.