Hammond v. Hastings’s Empirical Analysis
134 U.S. 401 · 1890
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1940 · most notably Direction Der Disconto-Gesellschaft v. United States Steel Corp. (1924), Maya Corporation v. Smith (1940)
10 federal appellate · 17 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Robert Brent v. The President and Directors of the Bank of Washington · National Bank v. Watsontown Bank · Union Bank v. Laird · First National Bank v. Hartford Life & Annuity Insurance
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘No person, therefore, can acquire a legal title to any shares, except under a regular transfer, according to the rules of the bank; and if any person takes an equitable assignment, it must be subject to the rights of the bank, under the act of incorporation, of which he is bound to take notice.’ “Repeated efforts have been made to have certificate's of stock declared negotiable paper, but they have been unsuccessful. Such a certificate is not negotiable in either form or character; and like every nonnegotiable paper, whoever takes it does so subject to its equities and burdens; and though ignorant of such equities and burdens his ignorance does hot relieve the paper therefrom, or enable him to hold it discharged therefrom.””
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.