Wheeler v. Barr’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““But conceding that Wheeler had requested Simon to procure Barr as a surety, and Simon, instead of doing so, had forged Barr’s name to the note, this would not constitute Simon the agent of Wheeler so as to charge the latter with notice that the signature of Barr was a forged one.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ranchmens Trust Co. v. Gill