Chapman v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 2015
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 Scott v. Ware · Wright v. Paine · Minniece v. Jeter · Harwood v. Harper · Grimball v. Mastin
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““They are certainly not wanting in acknowledgments of indebtedness, and are, it- may be admitted, sufficiently specific as to the amount thereof. They express a desire and expectation to pay it. They evidence a purpose and willingness to pay after a time. But they cannot be construed into an unconditional promise to pay the debt, nor into an acknowledgment of its existence, accompanied with an unequivocal expression of a willingness to presently pay it. * * * They do not import the' written absolute undertaking to pay the debt required to a removal of the bar of the statute.””
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.