Costelo v. Crowell’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 1968 · most notably National Bank of Newbury v. Wentworth (1914), Glidden v. Henry (1885)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 31 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 Jones v. Fales · President of Springfield Bank v. Merrick · Stults v. Silva · Way v. Smith · Cummings & Manning v. Gassett
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The words written upon the face of the note, ‘given as collateral security with agreement,’ being incorporated in and made part of the contract, indicate with clearness that there may be a contingency, to wit: the performance of the undertaking to which this is collateral, in which it would not be payable; and so it lacks that element of negotiability which requires that at all events a sum certain shall be payable at a certain time.””
2 later decisions 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.