Rossiter v. Vogel’s Empirical Analysis
148 F.2d 292 · 1945
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently June 1999 · most notably Securities and Exchange Commission v. Martin Frank, and Nylo-Thane Plastics Corp., Maurice Minuto, Olanda Minuto, Louis Braunston, Leonard Freedman (1968), Leon F. Urbain and Loxit Systems, Inc. v. Knapp Brothers Manufacturing Company, Al Levinson, Charles Levinson, and Robert Levinson (1954)
34 federal appellate · 4 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 Fred Fisher Music Co. v. M. Witmark & Sons · Hurwitz v. Hurwitz · Rossiter v. Vogel · Sbicca-Del Mac, Inc. v. Milius Shoe Co. · Downey v. Palmer
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]indings `are not a jurisdictional requirement of appeal,' but only `aid appellate courts in reviewing the decision below.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Under our earlier decision the assignment, if valid, would be treated as a present assignment of a future right. Hence the issue tendered was not the bare legal validity of the instrument, but whether defendants had established their defenses of lack of equity, justifying a court of equity in granting aid which was necessary to make the assignment ultimately effective.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rose v. Bourne, Inc.
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.