Washington v. Timberlake’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2004
20 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 Rosser v. Bunn & Timberlake · Milton v. Haden · Smith v. Kennard's · Ala. Coal Mining Co. v. Brainard · Dothard v. Sheid
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.
“"We hold, however, that the word `subsisting,' as employed in the statute we are construing, has a more confined meaning, and that the precise object the legislature had in view was, that demands held by defendants when the adversary plaintiff's right of action accrued, if then free from the infirmity of age, should not afterwards lose their availability as a defense, by mere lapse of time. . . If, however, the cross demand was barred when the plaintiff's cause of action accrued, it was not a subsisting demand within the meaning of this statute. . ." [Emphasis supplied.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When parties have cross-demands against each other, the real indebtedness is the excess of one debt over the other.”
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.