Pfaff v. Cummings’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
2
states following
February 1903
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Elliott v. Miller
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have two statutes of frauds which govern the suit, both on the special and on the common counts. One makes invalid the unwritten promise to pay the debt of another [How. Stat. § 6185, subd. 2], and the other forbids action on any unwritten acceptance [How. Stat. § 1583].””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Upham v. Clute
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.