Converse v. Blumrich’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably Markley v. Beagle (1967), Bostwick v. Mutual Life Insurance Co. (1903)
2 federal appellate · 45 state decisions — followed in 14 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 William Smith v. Guy Richards · Williamson v. . Brown · Chrisman v. Miller · Thallhimer v. Brinckerhoff · Mayor of Baltimore v. Williams
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As between himself and Converse, Blumrich had fully discharged his duty by making the inquiry; and the former will not be heard to claim that Blumrich should have received and acted upon the prior information, instead of the positive statements made by himself to the contrary. When one seeks the best authority to ascertain the truth of rumors, and is there misled, the person misleading him can hardly be allowed to support rights by insisting that he should still be chargeable with the reports which he had endeavored in vain to verify. The law of constructive notice can never be so applied as to relieve a party from responsibility for actual misstatements and frauds.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““But the admissions of an agent are only evidence against the principal when they constitute a part of the res gestee. They must accompany the transaction in which the agent acted; what he states at a subsequent time is inadmissible.” Citing authorities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hughitt v. Sayen““ A person is chargeable with constructive notice where, having the means of knowledge, he does not use them.””
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.