Barthelmess v. Cavalier’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 1990 · most notably Brooks Bros. v. Brooks Clothing of California, Ltd. (1945), Bastanchury v. Times-Mirror Co. (1945)
3 federal appellate · 22 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 Estate of Lances · Canajoharie National Bank v. Diefendorf · Zellner v. Wassman · Gavin v. Protestant Episcopal Bishop · Wenban Estate, Inc. v. Hewlett
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A purchaser, however, cannot shut his eyes to the surrounding circumstances, and, where the circumstances are so cogent and obvious that to remain passive would constitute bad faith, or are such as to justify the conclusion that the failure to make inquiry arose from a suspicion that inquiry would disclose a vice or defect in the instrument or transaction, such purchaser is charged with knowledge. Intentional ignorance, such as a willful evasion of knowledge of the facts, constitutes bad faith disqualifying the purchaser from becoming a holder in due course. Where circumstances which put him on inquiry are within his knowledge, he is chargeable with knowledge of all facts which an inquiry would have revealed.”
2 later decisions 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.