Meier v. Hess’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1981
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Fairbanks v. . Sargent · Wood v. Partridge · Thayer v. Daniels · Beckwith v. . the Union Bank of New-York · Rhodes v. McGarry
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“.. . [A]n assignment of a chose in action, made in good faith, for a sufficient consideration, and without intent to defraud creditors, or subsequent purchasers, is complete upon the mutual assent of the assignor and assignee, and does not gain an additional validity; as against third persons, by notice to the debtor ... Notice is, indeed, needful, in order to charge the debtor with the duty of payment to the assignee, so that if, without notice, he pay the debt to the assignor or to a subsequent assignee, or on a garnishee process, he will be discharged from the debt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We are, therefore, confronted with the question as to whether, between successive purchasers of a chose in action, their rights will depend upon the priority of the assignment, or of notice to the debtor. ’ ’”
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.