Messeroff v. Kantor’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2007
12 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a bank or the like designates that bank as a collecting bank to make presentment but does not of itself authorize the bank to pay the instrument.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is well settled both under pre-code and post-code law that an unauthorized endorsement does not operate to bar an action by a payee against the drawee bank who (sic) ultimately pays the draft.”
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.