Keene v. Behan’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 1971 · most notably Crilly v. Morris (1945), Langley v. Devlin (1917)
3 federal appellate · 33 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Relationships
Relies on Canajoharie National Bank v. Diefendorf · Elwood v. . the Western Union Telegraph Co. · Vail v. . Reynolds · Vosburgh v. . Diefendorf · Violet v. Rose
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ [Every] holder is deemed prima facie to be a holder in due course; but when it is shown that the title of any person who has negotiated (italics ours) the instrument was defective, the burden is on the holder to prove that he or some person under whom he claims acquired the title as holder in due course. But the last-mentioned rule does not apply in favor of a party who became bound on the instrument prior to the acquisition of such defective title.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““To constitute notice of an infirmity in the instrument or defect in the title of the person negotiating the same, the person to whom it is negotiated must have had actual knowledge of the infirmity or defect, or knowledge of such facts that his action in taking the instrument amounted to bad faith.” Rem. Rev. Stat., § 3447 [P. C. § 4127].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A holder in due course is a holder who has taken the instrument under the following conditions: . . . “4. That at the time it was negotiated to him he had no notice of any infirmity in the instrument or defect in the title of the person negotiating it.” Rem. Rev. Stat., § 3443 [P. C. § 4123].”
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.