Lyons v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently November 1939
3 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 Knapp v. St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern Railway Co. · Price v. Merritt · Goetz v. Piel · State v. Harris · Mackler v. Mississippi River & Bonne Terre Railroad
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule is, that where a creditor holds several claims against his debtor, and the latter makes a payment without giving directions as to its application, the creditor may make the application; if neither the creditor nor debtor makes the application, the law will apply it to the debt which first accrues, unless justice and equity demand a different application. [Beck v. Haas, 111 Mo. loc. cit. 268.] And the law in such circumstances ivill apply the payment to the debt whose security is most precarious. [Poulson v. Collier, 18 Mo. App. loc. cit. 608.] Or, where one is secured and the other unsecured, the law will apply the payment to the unsecured debt.” (Italics ours.)”
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.