Robertson v. Coleman’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently July 1987 · most notably Cohen v. Lincoln Savings Bank (1937), Land Title & Trust Co. v. Northwestern National Bank (1900)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 42 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Edmunds v. Merchants' Despatch Transportation Co. · Samuel v. Cheney
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That although’ the defendants may have been mistaken in the sort of man the person they dealt with was, this person was the person intended by them as the payee of the check, designated by the name he was called in the transaction, and that his indorsement of it was the indorsement of the payee of the check by that name. The contract of the defendant was to pay the amount of the check to this person, or his order, and he had ordered it paid to the plaintiff. If this person obtained the check from the defendants by fraudulent representations, the plaintiff took it, in good faith, and for value.””
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.