Deshler v. Dodge’s Empirical Analysis
57 U.S. 622 · 1853
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1943 · most notably Dodge v. Woolsey (1855), New Orleans v. Benjamin (1894)
16 federal appellate · 3 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 Jennet Smith Calvin Powe and Thomas Powe v. Joseph Kernochen · Sere and Laralde v. Pitot · 17 Serg. & Rawle 99 - Shaw v. Levy
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is admitted the assignors in this case could not have maintained the suit in the federal courts. We are of the opinion that this clause' of the statute has no application to the case of a suit by the assignee of a chose in action to recover possession of the thing in specie, or damages -for the wrongful caption or detention, and that it applies only to cases in which the suit is brought to recover the contents, or to enforce the contract contained in the instrument assigned.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Nor shall any district or circuit court have cognizance of any suit to recover the contents of any promissory note or other chose in action in favor of an assignee, unless a suit might have heen prosecuted in such court to recover the said contents if no assignment had been made, except in cases of foreign bills of exchange.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The distinction, as it respects the application of the 11th section of the Judiciary Act to a suit, concerning a chose in action is this — when the suit is brought to enforce the contract,. the assignee is disabled unless it might have been brought in. the court if no assignment had been made; hut if brought for a tort/ious taking or wrongful detention of the chattel, then the remedy accrues to the person who has the right of property or of possession at the time, the same as in case of a like wrong■ in respect to any other sort of personal property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blacklock v. Small
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.