Harrell v. Tenant, Walker & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1946
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.
““If the Johnsons thought proper to give their note to the appellees for an old debt, and appellant thought proper to sigh the note as their surety, the old debt was a sufficient consideration to uphold the note against both principal and surety. If the Johnsons had made the note and delivered it to appellees for the old debt, and afterwards they had induced appellant to sign it without consideration, it might perhaps have been invalid as to him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.