Spencer v. Halpern’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 1979
17 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 Reynolds v. Shaver · Aniba v. Yeomans · Hailey v. Falconer
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The declaration iliat the. payee assigns or transfers all his right, title and interest in the paper would seem to limit in a most effective way the right acquired by the transferee to those which the transferor had therein, and thus prevent the writing from operating as an indorsement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Copeland v. Burk““For value received. I hereby transfer my interest in the within note to Isaac Halpern. Geo. Spencer"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Copeland v. Burk
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.