Corbett v. Fetzer’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 1922
5 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.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no rule of law which requires a party to limit or qualify his indorsement by any writing preceding his signature. ' Such qualification may and often does follow the name of the party. Text-writers of approved authority recognize this mode of limiting the liability of an indorser as regular and appropriate.” (p. 435.)”
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.