Giffert v. West’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1937
18 state decisions — followed in 10 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The value of a chose in action, like a note or other promise or obligation in writing for the payment of money, is intrinsically nothing. It cannot be estimated as we estimate that of a horse, an acre of land, or other article of visible, tangible property. Its value depends on the pecuniary condition, or ability to pay, of the parties hable thereon; and hence the proper inquiry, where the value is in controversy, always is, Are the parties to it solvent and able to pay their debts?””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hall v. Mathewson
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.