4 E.H. Smith 209 - Le Marchant v. . Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 4 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently May 1985 · most notably Richardson v. Shaw (1908), Dyer v. Broadway Central Bank (1930)
15 federal appellate · 4 district · 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 Markham v. . Jaudon · Van Alen v. . American National Bank · Importers & Traders' National Bank v. Peters · Skiff v. Stoddard · Allen v. Merchant's Bank
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ ‘ The general and Well-recognized rule is, and has been, that a principal is entitled, in all cases, when he can trace his property, whether it be in the hands of the agent, or of his representatives, or of third persons, to reclaim it and it is immaterial that it may have been converted into money; so only that it is in condition to be distinguished from the other property or assets of the agent. ’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. de Gomez-Mena v. Coe
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.