Schoenfeld v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 1923
7 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The test in such cases is, whether the promise is direct or collateral; and the most ready means of solving the question is whether, in such cases as the present, the credit was given to the person making the promise, or to a third person. Where the credit is alone given to the promisor, then the statute can not have any operation, as it only affects verbal promises for the payment of the debt, default or miscarriage of another person.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.