Griswold v. . Haven’s Empirical Analysis
1862
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2014 · most notably Moffat v. United States (1884), Conrow v. . Little (1889)
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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.
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no difference in this respect between the liability of the principal for the fraud of his agent, and that of a partnership for the fraud of one of its members. Judge Story, in treating of the liability of partnerships in such cases, says: 'The whole doctrine proceeds upon the intelligible ground, that when one of two innocent parties must suffer by the act of a third person, he shall suffer who has been the cause or the occasion of the confidence and credit reposed in such third person.’ (Story on Part., Sec. 108.) Mr. Collyer, also, places this language of Judge Story at the head of the section in which he treats of this class of liabilities, and expressly applies the principle to the case of negotiable securities, fraudulently issued by one of the partners.” p. 602.”
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.