Bean v. Lamprey’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1951
6 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 Tatge v. Tatge · Dawson v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. · Fontaine v. Bush · Nichols, Shepard & Co. v. Allen · Sheldon v. Butler
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Hence the plaintiff, unless there was a promise by the defendant, based upon a new consideration personal to him, to pay the claim, was bound to show a promise by the defendant, in writing, to assume and pay the debt, in order to maintain this action. The plaintiff claims that a promise based upon such a consideration was shown on the trial. If this be so, it would follow that the promise would be an original one, and not within the statute of frauds. The specific contention of the plaintiff on this question is that a former action was pending against the defendant to recover the claim here in suit, and that the defendant promised that if that action was dismissed, and the time of payment extended, he would pay the claim, and that the action was dismissed, and the time of payment extended. If the evidence supports this contention, the statute of frauds is eliminated from the case. Hodgins v. Heaney, 15 Minn. 142 (185) ; Nichols, Shepard & Co. v. Allen, 22 Minn. 283 ; Sheldon v. Butler, 24 Minn. 513 .””
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.