Decker v. Laws’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2003
14 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 Vaughan v. State · Klein v. German National Bank · Lavender v. Hudgens
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““You are instructed that, where the parties give a receipt or check bearing upon its face that the sum mentioned is ‘in full’ payment of the account between the1 parties, the burden is upon such party signing such receipt or cheek to show that it was not intended as a full payment.” '”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baker v. Pierce
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.