42 Tex. Civ. App. 250 - Powers v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1969
16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question raised by the assignments of error is, Did the allegation and proof of these facts constitute a defense to plaintiff's action? It is undoubtedly the general rule that a part payment of a bill or nóte which has fallen due only extinguishes it pro tanto, and an agreement that it shall be in full discharge of the debt does not make such part payment any more effectual as to the residue; there being no sufficient consideration for the discharge of the whole. But if the claim evidenced by the bill or note is disputed, an agreement by way of compromise to receive a part payment in full settlement will discharge it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fennell v. Troell
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.