McCranie v. Cason’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 1972
12 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 Ahren v. Willis · Tedder v. Fraleigh-Lines-Smith Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“this rule is not applicable to a case where the consideration for the note is itself a promise to perform a service. Until the service is performed there is no consideration and the promise is nudum pactum, and a valid defense so long as the note is in the hands of the payee or one who is not a holder in due course.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barcus v. Wood“in erasing or inserting some material matter...”
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.