Nelson v. Flint’s Empirical Analysis
166 U.S. 276 · 1897
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1961
13 federal appellate · 2 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 Flint v. Nelson
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“2 “It is alleged that the trial court erred in ruling, out evidence of a conversation between Frank J. Cannon and A. H. Cannon in the absence of the plaintiff — a conversation which it was claimed induced A. H. Cannon to "sign the note. The mere statement of the proposition carries its own answer. Conversations between two makers of a note, in the absence of the payee, are clearly not binding upon the latter. No representations, true or false, made by one maker of a note to another, no secret understanding between such makers, no inducements offered by one to the other, affect the validity of the instrument in the hands of the payee unless he knew or was chargeable with notice of such facts. The vital question is not what passed between the makers by themselves, but what passed between the payee and any one of the makers.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sandell v. Norment
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.