Cass v. . Higenbotam’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently September 1958 · most notably Blackstone v. Miller (1903), Halpin v. . Phenix Ins. Co. (1890)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 45 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 Kortright v. . Cady · Tuthill v. . Morris · Becker v. . Boon · Welch v. . Sage · Holmes v. Holmes
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The plaintiff as bailee had no right to deny the title of the defendant as •bailor, if he, the bailor, was the true owner of the property. If there were conflicting claims to the same, the plaintiff had a complete remedy by bringing an action in the nature of a bill of interpleader, making the claimants parties thereto, and in that form of an action it could be determined who was the true owner of the property. In that way he could have avoided all risk or hazard. Having thus failed to assert his' rights, he is in no position to claim that the action brought against him bars the right of the defendant to counterclaim his demand in this action. Welch v. Sage, 47 N. Y. 143 [ 7 Am. Rep. 423 ].””
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.