Soper v. Peck’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 1949
1 federal appellate · 10 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 Shotwell v. Harrison · Anderson v. Walter
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It cannot be disputed that defendants’ evidence tended to show that he had had a fraud practiced upon him and that very probably he had been made to put his name to a note when he supposed he was signing something different. If the jury believed this he was entitled to their verdict, unless his negligence was so gross as to preclude his making the defense as against a bona fide purchaser of the paper.””
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.