Swain v. Knapp’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 1958
5 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 Swain v. Knapp
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.
“«-» * * It is sufficient to make an account stated, if it be examined and accepted as such by both parties, and this acceptance need not be in writing, or even expressed, but may be implied from circumstances ; and if the parties accepted this account as a full and final statement of the business up to that date, it did not become any the less final from the fact that it included certain specified uncollected accounts receivable, which were reckoned in as a part of the profits of the business.””
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.