Richardson v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
1 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2013
1 district · 20 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 Colton v. Drovers' Perpetual Building & Loan Ass'n · Skiles v. Houston · South Baltimore Co. v. Muhlbach · Roth v. Shupp · Hobbs v. Batory
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In this case, at the time of the assignment, the claim of the defendant against the agency did not exist, and therefore the assignee took the claim against the defendant in favor of his assignor, free of any right to a set-off in favor of the defendant, whose claim against the assignor did not come into existence until after the assignment, and until he was required to pay assignor's note by virtue of his liability thereon as indorser. Fidelity & Deposit Co. v. Haines, 78 Md. 454 ." ( 109 Md. at 648 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A claim acquired after the assignment cannot be set off against the assignee; nor a liability, existing but not due at the time of the assignment, even if it becomes due before the suit was commenced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The equities need not exist at the inception of the debt. It is sufficient if they exist prior to the assignment.”
1 later decision 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.