Shaw v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
1868
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1999 · most notably National Bank v. Insurance Co. (1881), Robb v. Vos (1894)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 106 state decisions — followed in 31 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 7 Johns. Ch. 150 - Field v. Schieffelin
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““With respect to the argument that it was unnecessary to make any inquiry, because it must have led. to no results, I think it impossible to admit the validity of this excuse. I concur in the doctrine of Joños v. Smitu 1 ’ • *Vr»£ ⅛ falso answer or a reasonable answer given to an inquiry mh*>c . 1 - willi the necessity of further inquiry; but I think it impossible ■ ⅛ to come to (Ue conclusion that a ialse answer would lure been cm- ■ ,. i. would have preelndod the necessity of further inquiry. X more ''íuu-ívui -fu •- trine could not be laid down, nor one involving a mare unK-Jfi,-ó.'ri'H,-'q<"¡./!!y, namely, a hypothetical inquiry as to what A. would h ve >¡:úc if K. fc"l ¡¡rid something other Uian what he did say.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““One holding stock as trustee has prima facie no right to pledge it to secure his own debt growing out of a transaction independent of the trust. If a certificate of stock expressed in the name of ‘A. B., trustee,’ is by him pledged to secure his own debt, the pledgee is by the terms of the certificate put on inquiry as to the character and limitations of the trust, and, if he accepts the pledge without inquiry, does so at his peril.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“¡./!!y, namely, a hypothetical inquiry as to what A. would h ve >¡:úc if K. fc”
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.