Barton v. Perryman’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2012
18 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 Alston v. Bitely · Elkins v. Henry Vogt Machine Co. · Bodcaw Oil Co. v. Atlantic Refining Co. · Ripley v. Kelly · Simmons National Bank v. Dalton
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A novation ... is a contract that (a) discharges immediately a previous contractual duty or a duty to make compensation, and (b) creates a new contractual duty, and (c) includes as a party one who neither owed the previous duty nor was entitled to its performance. [Emphasis supplied].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Novation is the substitution by mutual agreement of one debtor or of one creditor for another, whereby the old debt is extinguished, or the substitution of a new debt or obligation for an existing one, which is thereby extinguished.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. In Re Humes
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.