Traer v. Clews’s Empirical Analysis
115 U.S. 528 · 1885
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 13 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 158 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2013 · most notably Stellwagen v. Clum (1918), Sprint Communications Co. v. APCC Services, Inc. (2008)
49 federal appellate · 13 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Wood v. Carpenter · Bailey Assignee v. Glover et al. · Sturges v. Crowninshield · Twin-Lick Oil Company v. Marbury · Murdock v. City of Memphis
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 158 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““the fact that the grantee may be compelled to bring a suit to enforce his right to the property does not render the conveyance void”,'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The case of Bailey v. Glover, has never been overruled, doubted, or modified by this court. On the contrary, in Rosenthal v. Walker, it was reaffirmed, and was distinguished from the case of Wood v. Carpenter ...”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * we hold that when there has been no negligence or laches on the part of a plaintiff in coming to the knowledge of the fraud which is the foundation of the suit, and when the fraud has been concealed, or is of such character as to conceal itself, the statute does not begin to run until the fraud is discovered by, or becomes known to, the party suing, or those in privity with him.”
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.