Mathonican v. Scott & Baldwin’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently April 1936 · most notably Dallas Hotel Co. v. Fox (1917), American Automobile Ins. Co. v. Struwe (1920)
52 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.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the settled rule of this court, and of most of the courts of the American States, that when one for a valuable consideration agrees with another to pay the debt of that other person to a third person, such agreement inures to the benefit of the third party, who may maintain an action thereon.””
2 later decisions 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.