Goodman v. Niblack’s Empirical Analysis
102 U.S. 556 · 1880
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 13 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 248 later decisions (49 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Segal v. Rochelle (1966), United States v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. (1949)
58 federal appellate · 13 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 12 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 William Shields v. Robert R Barrow · Barney v. Baltimore City · United States v. Gillis · Spofford v. Kirk
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 248 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The language of the statute, “all transfers and assignments of any claim upon the United States, or of any part thereof, or any interest therein,” is broad enough (if such were the purpose of Congress) to include transfers by operation of law, or by will. Yet we held it did not include a transfer by operation of law, or in bankruptcy, and we said it did not include one by will. The obvious reason of this is that there can be no purpose in such cases to harass the government by multiplying the number of persons with whom it has to deal, nor any danger of enlisting improper influences in advocacy of the claim, and that the exigencies of the party who held it justified and required the transfer that was made.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It does not embrace cases where there has been a transfer of title by operation of law. The passing of claims to heirs, devisees or assignees in bankruptcy are not within the evil at which the statute aimed; nor does' the construction given by this court deny to such parties a standing in the Court of Claims.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Both these considerations, as well as a careful examination of the statute, leave no doubt that its sole purpose was to protect the government, and not the parties to the assignment.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.