Elmore v. Fanning’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““. . . But there can be no legal significance in yielding or refusing assent to an act which the party has no right to interfere with or prevent. The note was due and the coobligor had a perfect right and it was his duty to pay it. Objection would have been vain, and knowledge is immaterial . . .” (pp. 504, 505.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Fisher v. Pendleton

2. ““Partial payment made by one debtor on a note, will not suspend the running of the statute of limitations in favor of the other debtors thereon, although the party paying be the principal debtor, and the others only sureties.” (syl.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hurley v. Gray

3. ““A payment, to toll the statute, must be made under such circumstances as to amount to an acknowledgment of an existing liability. (Shanks v. Louthan, 79 Kan. 363 , 99 Pac. 613 .)” (p. 504.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gorrill v. Goff