Miller v. Ottaway’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 1967
1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Relationships
Relies on Davis v. . McCready · Dow v. Tuttle · Bowman v. Van Kuren · Sutton v. Beckwith · State National Bank v. Cason
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““From the foregoing authorities, and upon reason, the correct doctrine appears to be that it is not a good ground of defense against a bona fide holder for value that he was informed that the note was made in consideration of an executory contract, unless he was also informed of its breach. If he had knowledge of the breach, the defense may be interposed. ... A mere collateral agreement or warranty made at the time the note was given does not affect the validity or nego liability of the note, although the purchaser before maturity may know of such agreement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moyses v. Bell
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.