Walden v. Backus’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2004
21 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 Royer v. Carter · Western National Insurance v. Trent · 2 Cal. App. 2d 646 - General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. Brown · Wolf v. Humboldt County · Tolboe v. Peccole
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.
““The law of Nevada requires that the party availing himself of a plea of accord and satisfaction must bear the burden of proof and must establish clearly that there was a meeting of the minds of the parties, accompanied by a sufficient consideration, Wolf v. Humboldt County, 36 Nev. 26 , 131 P. 964 (1913); Western Nat’l Ins. Co. v. Trent, 69 Nev. 239 , 247 P.2d 208 (1952).””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Consideration is not adequate when it is a mere promise to perform that which the promisor is already bound to do.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zhang v. Dist. Ct.
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.