Yeager v. Farwell’s Empirical Analysis
80 U.S. 6 · 1871
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2018 · most notably State v. Wiley (1985), State v. Cosgrove (1980)
8 federal appellate · 24 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Applying the principle of these decisions to the admitted facts of this case there is no difficulty in charging the indorsers. Their promise to pay was expressly made after they knew of the laches of the maker of the note, and they cannot now be allowed to repudiate it. “The most formal demand and notice could have been of no service to them, for they knew the demand would be useless, and the notice could only tell them what they were advised of without it. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cowles v. Matthews““Although, accurately speaking, there can only be a waiver of demand and notice by the indorser before the note is due, yet, after it is due, he can waive proof of them; or, what is more to the purpose, he can so act towards the holder of the note as to render the fact that demand was not made or notice given, wholly immaterial.” Yeager v. Farwell, 80 U. S. 6 , 20 L. Ed. 476 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cowles v. Matthews
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.