Bolan v. Wrather’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 1957
14 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 Behrens Drug Co. v. Hamilton & McCarty · Sanger v. Warren · Durrum v. Hendrick · Texas Land & Cattle Co. v. Carroll & Iler · Max Lindheim & Bro. v. Muschamp
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No person is liable on the instrument [a negotiable instrument] whose signature does not appear thereon, except as herein otherwise expressly provided. But one who signs in a trade or assumed name will be liable to the same extent as if he had signed in his own name.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wood v. Key
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.