Wells v. Duffy’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1948
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 Ireland v. Scharpenberg · Scandinavian American Bank v. Johnston · Cedar Rapids National Bank v. Myhre Bros. · City National Bank of Lafayette v. Mason · Scandinavian American Bank v. Appleton
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To constitute notice of an infirmity in the instrument or defect in the title of the person negotiating the same, the person to whom it is negotiated must have had actual knowledge of the infirmity or defect, or knowledge of such facts that his action in taking the instrument amounted to bad faith. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Larsen v. Betcher““Assuming however, without deciding the question, that the note was obtained by means of fraudulent representations made by the payee, the respondent is entitled to recover on either of two grounds, (1) he purchased from a holder in due course, and (2) he is a holder in due course.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Duffy v. Blake
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.