Doty v. . Willson’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 1972 · most notably Estate of Beatty v. Western College of Toledo (1898), Dykeman v. Jenkines (1913)
3 federal appellate · 34 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A release or surrender of the evidence of the debt, or some act, as the destruction of the note, bond or other evidence of debt, seems to be regarded as necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a mere parol declaration afterward would not transform the debt into a gift.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.