Angus v. Downs’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 1966
5 federal appellate · 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 Buzzell v. Tobin
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where an incomplete instrument has not been delivered it will not, if completed 'and negotiated without authority, be a valid contract in the hands of any holder, as against any person whose signature was placed thereon before delivery.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Where the instrument is in the hands of a holder in due course, a valid delivery thereof by all parties prior to him so as to make them liable to him is conclusively presumed.” Rem. Comp. Stat., §3407.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We conclude, therefore, that it is not a defense against the suit of a holder in due course of commercial paper to show that the paper was stolen from the maker thereof prior to delivery.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brokaw v. Kunze
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.