Haseltine v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 1953 · most notably Chandler v. Chicago & Alton Railroad (1913), State ex rel. Major v. Arkansas Lumber Co. (1914)
4 federal appellate · 29 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 Smith v. Harris · Wilson v. St. Louis & Western Railroad
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * but standing, as the plaintiff loan company does in this record, in the shoes of L. A. Haseltine, or not even in as favorable position as he stood, but rather as the ‘mere assignee of his right to sue in equity to redress a wrong perpetrated on him, its position is not so favorable. * * * But, conceding that he could have maintained such a suit, he could not assign his right to do so. The bare right to maintain a suit in equity to set aside a deed obtained from the assignor bv fraud, is not assignable. (Citing cases.)””
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.