Good v. Ehrlich’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2002
21 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 United States v. Wilder · Steele v. Souder · Letson v. Kenyon · Arnold v. Downing · Butler v. Price
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘In order to make a money payment, a part payment within the statute, it must be shown to be a payment of a portion of an admitted debt, and paid to •and accepted by the creditor as such, accompanied by circumstances amounting to an absolute and unqualified acknowledgment of more being due, from which .a promise may be inferred to pay the remainder. In order to have that effect, it must . . . appear . . . that the payment was made under such cir■cumstances as warrant a jury in finding an implied promise to pay the balance; .and if the payment was made under such circumstances as to rebut any such promise, it does nbt affect the operation of the statute.’ ” (p. 97.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gorrill v. Goff
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.