Foley v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
73 U.S. 492 · 1867
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1960
5 federal appellate · 12 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.
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 rule of law that he who takes a note overdue and dishonored takes it incunfbered with all equities between the parties to. it is the law of Louisiana, as well as of those states which have adopted the common law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.