Root v. Potter’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 1987
1 federal appellate · 18 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 Tyler v. Peatt · Maynard v. Hoskins · Griswold v. Fuller
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The assignment law regards the assignee as a trustee or representative of the creditors for all purposes auxiliary to the assignment, and, if creditors could sue also, it would create great confusion.” See, also, Scott v. Chambers, 62 Mich. 532 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“‘ ‘ There is nothing in the assignment law which undertakes to avoid dealings previous to the assignment, whether near or remote in point of time, which were in no way connected with it in the intention of the parties. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Benham v. Ham““ Every such assignment shall confer upon such assignee the right to recover all property, or rights or equities in property, which might be reached or recovered by any of the creditors of such assignor.””
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.