Beekman v. Trower’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1962
9 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 Kimball v. Connor · Jones v. Standiferd · Curry v. Janicke · Haight v. Schuck · Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston Rld. v. Van Riper
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When. Beekman entered his voluntary appearance he was bound to use due diligence to protect whatever interests he might have in the action. Neither the petition nor the answer, however, suggested any facts which he was called upon to notice. He might have filed a cross petition and had his warranty deed foreclosed as a second mortgage, but he was under no obligation to do so and he chose to let the opportunity pass. The other parties had filed such pleadings as were presumably satisfactory to them. It was not a case where other lienholders might come in and assert rights inconsistent with Beekman’s interest. There was no occasion for him to anticipate the possibility that a contingency might arise in which it would be necessary for him to be present in order to protect his rights, and therefore it can not be said to be a want of due diligence for him to let the action, go without further attention.” (p. 331.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Scott v. Johnson
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.