Craig v. Seitz’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 1931
5 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 Allen & Co. v. Ferguson · Dusenbury v. . Hoyt · Maxim v. Elisha · Evans v. Carey · 4 La. Ann. 401 - Linton v. Stanton
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the effect of the discharge is to suspend the right of action, the debt remains, and the moral obligation to pay it forms a sufficient consideration for the promise to make such payment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lieblein v. George
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.