Culver v. . Sisson’s Empirical Analysis
1850
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 1943
6 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 Elder v. Rouse
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is contended on the part of the defendant, that the instrument declared upon contains neither an acknowledgment of indebtedness on his part, nor any express covenant or agreement to pay money, without one or the other of which this action cannot be maintained. “It is clear that the instrument set forth contains no express covenant to pay money, and this case must therefore fall within the principle determined [cases cited] unless the defendant has bound himself by an express acknowledgment of indebtedness to the plaintiff. ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marston v. Denton
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.