Everding & Farrell v. Toft’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1957
16 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 Canajoharie National Bank v. Diefendorf · Matlock v. Scheuerman · Bowman v. Metzger · Owens v. Snell · Michener v. Springfield Engine & Thresher Co.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"While negligence is not synonymous with bad faith, yet a person who takes a note under suspicious circumstances and, having the means of knowledge, willfully abstains from making inquiries, then Ms intentional ignorance may result in bad faith, because the final question is one of honesty and good faith: 3 R. C. L. 1075; 8 C. J. 505; Griffith v. Shipley, 74 Md. 591 ( 22 Atl. 1107 , 14 L. R. A. 405); Bowman v. Metzger, 27 Or. 23, 31 ( 39 Pac. 3 , 44 Pac. 1090 ); Benton v. Sikyta, 84 Neb. 808 ( 122 N. W. 61 , 24 L. R. A. (N. S.) 1057); 7 Cyc. 946.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Starvaggi v. Ludden““ * * When it is shown that the title of any person who has negotiated the instrument was defective, the burden is on the holder to prove that he,- or some person under whom he claims, acquired the title as a holder in due course.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Starvaggi v. Ludden
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.