Sprung v. Jaffe’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently January 2010 · most notably FLLI Moretti Cereali v. Continental Grain Co. (1977), Elliott Associates Lp v. Banco De La Nacion the Republic of Peru (1999)
7 federal appellate · 4 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 Curry v. MacKenzie · General Investment Co. v. Interborough Rapid Transit Co. · Spencer v. Standard Chemicals & Metals Corp. · Moses v. . McDivitt · Morgan Munitions Supply Co. v. Studebaker Corporation of America
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“primary purpose of the purchase or taking by assignment of the thing in action”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“no corporation or association, directly or indirectly, itself or by or through its officers, agents or employees, shall solicit, buy or take an assignment of, or be in any manner interested in buying or taking an assignment of a bond, promissory note, bill of exchange, book debt, or other thing in action, or any claim or demand, with the intent and for the purpose of bringing an action or proceeding thereon. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * with the intent and for the purpose of bringing an action thereon.”
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.