1 E.H. Smith 277 - Fortunato v. . Patten’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2004 · most notably Salem Trust Co. v. Manufacturers' Finance Co. (1924), Portuguese-American Bank v. Welles (1916)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 42 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Burck v. Taylor · Williams v. . Ingersoll · Fairbanks v. . Sargent · Fairbanks v. . Sargent · Lowry v. . Inman
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]s between different assignees of a chose in action by express assignment from the same person, the one prior in point of time will be protected, although he has given no notice of such assignment to either the subsequent assignee or the debtor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rose v. Amsouth Bank
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.