M'Crea v. Purmort

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “The payment of the money discharges or extinguishes the debt; a receipt for the payment does not pay the debt, it is only evidence that it has been paid.”
• “The payment of the money discharges or extinguishes the debt; a receipt for the payment does not pay the debt, it is only evidence that it has been paid.”
• “[A] receipt for the payment does not pay the debt, it is only evidence that it has been paid. Not so of a written release; it is not only evidence of the extinguishment, but it is the extinguisher itself.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

122 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Atlantic Northern Airlines, Inc. v. Schwimmer
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1953-04-27· cited 265×
• Hutchison v. Ross
  New York Court of Appeals· 1933-07-11· cited 148×
• Ullsperger v. Meyer
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1905-10-24· cited 68×
• Frink v. Roe
  California Supreme Court· 1886-07-30· cited 61×
• Gosselin v. Better Homes, Inc.
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1969-08-27· cited 50×
• Cochran v. Taylor
  New York Court of Appeals· 1937-03-09· cited 43×
• Hodges v. Kowing
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1889-04-15· cited 43×
• Bever v. North
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1886-10-05· cited 42×
• Peck v. Vandenberg
  California Supreme Court· 1866-04-15· cited 37×
• Mastin v. Grimes
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1885-10-15· cited 37×
• Jackson v. Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City Railroad
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1893-11-06· cited 34×
• Bolles v. Sachs
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1887-07-27· cited 34×
• Rogers v. Verlander
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1888-02-04· cited 33×
• Burrus v. Cook
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1908-12-23· cited 33×
• Coles v. Soulsby
  California Supreme Court· 1862-07-01· cited 32×
• Carver v. Louthain
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1872-05-15· cited 30×
• Howell v. Moores
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1889-01-25· cited 29×
• Goward v. Waters
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1868-01-15· cited 27×
• Cheney v. Cook
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1859-01-15· cited 25×
• Rockhill v. Spraggs
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1857-05-26· cited 25×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Henry Miller's Heirs & Devisees v. M'Intyre
  Supreme Court· 1832-01-21· cited 75×
• Wilkinson v. Scott
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1821-09-15· cited 69×
• Dean v. Hewit
  New York Supreme Court· 1830-07-15· cited 41×
• Harvey v. Alexander
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1822-12-15· cited 36×
• Pinkerton v. Bailey
  New York Supreme Court· 1832-01-15· cited 26×
• Soulden v. Van Rensselaer
  New York Supreme Court· 1832-10-15· cited 19×
• Tucker v. Maxwell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1814-05-15· cited 9×