Lenger v. Hulst’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 1980
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.
Relationships
Relies on Farmers & Mechanics Bank v. Kercheval · Wolverine Cigar Co. v. Knoppow · C. J. Litscher Electric Co. v. Stiles · General Tire & Rubber Co. v. Noble
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In reply to the notice signed by Isaac Hollemans and sent to the undersigned, we wish to go on record to the effect that this company does not intend to release either of the partners * * * from the joint and several liability which they now have to pay to the undersigned company all obligations heretofore undertaken by them individually or as partners.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Heller v. Mattar
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.