Mitchell v. Harper’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 1953
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.
Relationships
Relies on 12 E.H. Smith 313 - Olmstead v. . Latimer · Davis v. Stout · Fridenberg v. Robinson · Howe v. Klein
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.
“A valid agreement of extension has the effect of suspending the right of the owner of the indebtedness to enforce its payment during the period of such extension. But in order to be effectual such agreement must be supported by a sufficient consideration. A mere agreement for delay for no definite time and without consideration is not enforcible. 7 Cyc. 731; 27 Cyc. 1525; Friendenberg v. Robinson, 14 Fla. 130 ; Davis, et al., v. Stout, 126 Ind. 12 , 25 N.E. Rep. 862 ; Marshall Field Co. v. Oren Ruffcorn, 117 Ia. 157 , 90 N.W. Rep. 618 ; Howe v. Klein, 89 Me. 376 , 36 Atl. Rep. 620 ; Olmstead v. Latimer, et al., 158 N.Y. 313 , 53 N.E. Rep. 5 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hygema v. Markley
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.