Waters v. Shafer’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently March 1953
3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The issue made by the defendant in his answer was that he made no promise either to see the debt paid or to pay it: of, stated differently, the issue presented by him is not as to the kind or character of the promise. but that no promise of any kind was made. If the promise was. made, therefore, it was a direct one to pay for the goods,” .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bilby v. Owen
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.