Bailey Assignee v. Glover et al.’s Empirical Analysis
88 U.S. 342 · 1874
Citation profile
309 federal appellate · 111 district · 98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,029 later decisions (64 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Guaranty Trust Co. v. York (1945), Holmberg v. Armbrecht (1946)
309 federal appellate · 111 district · 98 state decisions — followed in 34 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 Lessee of Porter v. Neelan · Rush v. Barr
Cited together with Holmberg v. Armbrecht · Exploration Co. v. United States · Glus v. Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal · Lampf, Pleva, Lipkind, Prupis & Petigrow v. Gilbertson · Moviecolor Ltd. v. Eastman Kodak 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 1,029 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here a plaintiff has been injured by fraud and “remains in ignorance of it without any fault or want of diligence or care on his part, the bar of the statute does not begin to run until the fraud is discovered, though there be no special circumstances or efforts on the part of the party committing the fraud to conceal it from the knowledge of the other party.””
117 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[N]o suit at law or in equity shall in any case be maintainable by or against such assignee * * * unless the same shall be brought within two years from the time the cause of action accrued, for or against such assignee.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Westinghouse Electric Corp. v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. · Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company, Federal Pacific Electric Company, I-T-E Circuit Breaker Company, General Electric Company v. Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Ohio Brass Company v. Southern California Edison Company“kept secret their fraudulent acts and endeavored to conceal them both from the knowledge of the assignee and his one creditor, whereby both were prevented from obtaining any sufficient knowledge or information thereof until within the last two years, and that even up to the present time they had not been able to obtain full and particular information as to the fraudulent disposition made by the bankrupt of a large part of his property.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.