Mainzinger v. Mohr’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 1941
12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No indorsement or memorandum of any such payment, written or made upon any promissory note, bill of exchange, or other writing by or on behalf of the party to whom such payment shall be made or purport to be made, shall be deemed sufficient proof of the payment, so as to take the case out of the operation of the provisions of this chapter.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fowles v. Joslyn““At the common law, a new promise to pay a debt barred by the statute might be inferred from, a mere recognition of the existence of a just demand; and, when this rule was so changed as to require an express promise in writing, it was wisely provided, ” etc.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fowles v. Joslyn““A* payment under this statute is equivalent to a new promise; and, as one cannot make the express promise for the other, neither can he make for him the indirect.promise which a payment implies.””
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.