Comstock v. Hannah’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 1944 · most notably Siegel, Cooper & Co. v. Chicago Trust & Savings Bank (1890), Matson v. Alley (1892)
32 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 Timothy Goodman v. John Simonds · Murray v. Lardner · Magee v. . Badger · Welch v. . Sage
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The party who takes it (commercial paper) before due, for a valuable consideration, without knowledge of any defect of title and in good faith, holds it by a title valid against the world. Suspicion of defect mf title or the knowledge of circumstances which would excite such suspicion in the mind of a prudent man, or gross negligence on the part of the taker at the time of the transfer, will not' defeat his title. That result can only be produced by bad faith on his part. The burden of proof lies on the person who assails the right claimed by the party in possession.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dewey v. Merritt““Such is the settled law of this court and we feel no disposition to depart from it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Metcalf v. Draper
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.