Kitchens v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2019
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.
Relationships
Relies on Shepherd v. Thompson · Hackett v. Hackett · Brookfield v. Rock Island Improvement Co. · Morris v. Carr · Ballheimer v. Service Finance Corp.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The original debt, indeed, is a sufficient legal consideration for a subsequent new promise to pay it, made either before or after the bar of the statute is complete. But, in order to continue or revive the cause of action after it would otherwise have been barred by the statute, there must be either an express promise of the debtor to pay the debt, or else an express acknowledgment of the debt, from which his promise to pay may be inferred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he issue is whether the conduct or representations of the [defendant] are so unfair and misleading as to outbalance the public's interest in setting a limitation on bringing actions.”
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.