Sweet v. Converse’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2015
3 federal appellate · 15 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 Graham v. Railroad Co. · Decker v. . Decker · French v. Shotwell · Dickinson v. Seaver · Putnam v. Reynolds
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.
““ All of the cases cited concede that the rule contended for — that a right of action for fraud is not assignable— has po application to an assignment of something which is in itself tangible, capable of delivery, involving a right of property. In such case, the right to whatever remedy the assignor has follows the ¿ssignment.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is true, that the law will not encourage speculation in the naked right to complain óf a. fraud; but a clear distinction is made of the assignment of a baked right to' complain: óf a fraud ahd the assignment of a liquidated claim; "or. judgment in favor of á creditor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Berry v. Chase
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.