Dickson v. Stockman’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2009
7 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 Long v. Knox · 20 Tex. Civ. App. 443 - Shelton v. Jackson · Silvers Box Corp. v. Boynton Lumber Co. · First State Bank of Panhandle 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A valid accord and satisfaction of a money demand may be based on payment of an amount less than the creditor contends is due, or which may be actually due, where the claim is unliquidated, or where there is a bona fide dispute between the parties as to liability on a liquidated claim. The creditor is bound by such an accord and satisfaction of a disputed money claim, though his acceptance was under protest. This rule, or, as it has been characterized, this exception to the general rule that part payment will not extinguish a liquidated demand, applies though the debt is evidenced by a note, or by a judgment. “The settlement of an unliquidated claim or of a liquidated claim that has been disputed in good faith is of itself a sufficient consideration to support an agreement of accord. In this situation, the courts will not inquire into the adequacy of the payment made on a money demand. * * * ””
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.