Scharff v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently August 1949 · most notably Hercules Powder Co. v. State Board of Equalization (1949), Neil v. Cunningham Store Co. (1910)
7 federal appellate · 42 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 The Bank of Rochester v. . Jones · Michigan Central Railroad v. Phillips · Merchants' National Bank of Cincinnati v. Bangs · The Marine Bank of Chicago v. . Wright · First National Bank of Green Bay v. Dearborn
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If, under such circumstances, the consignor wishes to prevent the title from vesting in the consignee, he must, by bill of lading, make the goods deliverable to his own order.””
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.