Downey v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
55 U.S. 240 · 1852
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2010 · most notably Hendrick v. Lindsay (1876), A. Leschen & Sons Rope Co. v. Mayflower Gold Mining & Reduction Co. (1909)
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 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 Patterson v. United States · Greenwood v. Curtis · Tobey v. Barber · Olcott v. Rathbone · Johnson v. Weed
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A note of a debtor himself, or of a third party, is never considered as a payment of a precedent debt, unless there be a special agreement to that, effect. Had Downey received the certificate of deposit himself, it would not have been considered a payment unless it was so agreed. The transaction, in fact, was only a dealing with credits. No money was drawn from the bank or deposited in it. By the certificate, the credit of the bank was given in addition to the credit of the original debtor. Such a transaction without a special agreement to receive the certificate in payment, would mhke it a collateral security only.””
2 later decisions 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.