Ross v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1857
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 1939
1 federal appellate · 10 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 Jones v. Witter · Partridge v. Gordon
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The note was not indorsed specially to the plaintiff, nor was it indorsed in blank; and the only question is whether the mere possession, without proof of a bona fide assignment or transfer, either by parol or writing, was prima facie evidence of ownership.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pinkerton v. Kempner““A third person, not a party to such note, must show by what right he claims to recover from the debtor, or in other words that he holds under a bona fide assignment, valid in law, from the owner of the note.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pinkerton v. Kempner
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.