Dodge v. Oatis’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1969
8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Now this evidence certainly tended to show a failure of consideration for the-note; and it does not tend to contradict or vary any of the terms or conditions. contained in the note. A total or partial failure of consideration of a contract, whether the contract is in writing or not, may always be shown. (Comp. Laws of 1879, p. 209, § 8;) and a contemporaneous verbal agreement, which does not contradict or vary the terms of the written contract, may also be shown. [Citing cases.]” (p.763)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.