Foster v. Taggart’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 1937
6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And that the said representations and each of them were then and there false and untrue, and known by the defendant, at the time to be so; . . . that [the mortgaged premises] were not then an adequate security for more than $200; that the defendant never .pretended ■ or claimed that [the mortgagor] was personally responsible for any sum whatever, and this plaintiff believes that if any such person exists he is wholly irresponsible and insolvent, and was at the -time-of the purchase.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stephens v. Wheeler
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.