Ort v. Fowler’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2009
1 district · 13 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 Putnam v. Sullivan · Chapman v. . Rose · Walker v. Ebert · Shirt v. Overjohn · Cline v. Guthrie
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.
“able to read, signs a bill or note, relying upon the assurance or the reading of a stranger that it is a different instrument... one of two innocent parties must suffer; but the bona fide holder is not only innocent, but free from all negligence ... if he can read, he ought to read; and he has no right to send his signature out into the world affixed to an instrument of whose contents he is ignorant. If he relies upon the word of a stranger, he makes that stranger his agent. He adopts his reading as his own knowledge. What his agent knows, he knows; and he cannot disaffirm the acts of that agent done within the scope of the authority he has intrusted to him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.