Weast v. Arnold’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. Daniels (1985), Adams v. Madison Realty & Development, Inc. (1988)
2 federal appellate · 23 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 Williams v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Evergreen Amusement Corp. v. Milstead · 32 Colo. App. 33 - Community Manage. Ass'n of Colorado Sp. v. Tousley · 90 Ill. App. 3d 507 - Schranz v. I. L. Grossman, Inc. · Caterine v. United States
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.
“"Transfer of an instrument vests in the transferee such rights as the transferor has therein, except that a transferee who has himself been a party to any fraud or illegality affecting the instrument or who as a prior holder had notice of a defense or claim against it cannot improve his position by taking from a later holder in due course.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“‘A induces M by fraud to make an instrument payable to A, A negotiates it to B, who takes as a holder in due course. After the instrument is overdue B gives it to C, who has notice of the fraud. C succeeds to B’s rights as a holder in due course, cutting off the defense.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“‘A holder in due course may transfer his rights as such. The ‘shelter’ provision of the last sentence of the original Section 58 is merely one illustration of the rule that anyone may transfer what he has. Its policy is to assure the holder in due course a free market for the paper, and that policy is continued in this section.’”
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.