Hale v. . Patton’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1973 · most notably Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual Fire Insurance v. Meyer (1905), Camardo v. New York State Railways (1928)
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions — followed in 13 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In general a debtor, who is. indebted on a money- obligation, is bound, if no place of payment is .specified in the contract, to seek the creditor and make payment to him personally. But this rule is subject, to the exception that if the creditor-is out of the State when payment is to be made, the debtor is not obliged to follow him, but readiness to pay within the State in that case will be as effectual as actual payment to save a forfeiture. (Co. Litt. 304, 2; Smith v. Smith, 25 Wend. 405 ; Allshouse v. Ramsey, 6 Whart. 331 ; Southworth v. Smith, 7 Cush. 391 ; Tasker v. Bartlett, 5 Cush. 359 .)”
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.