Simpson v. First Nat. Bank’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 1968 · most notably Durant v. Snyder (1944), J. M. Carey & Brother v. City of Casper (1950)
31 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Goshen National Bank v. Bingham · St. Charles Savings Bank v. Edwards · Liberty Trust Co. v. Tilton · Cornish v. Woolverton · Ex parte Goldberg & Lewis
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In order, however, that any such instrument, when completed, may be enforced against any person who became a party thereto prior to its completion, it must be filled up strictly in accordance with the authority given, and within a reasonable time; * # .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * * an unqualified indorsement is the one most used in the commercial world and the one which is generally expected by the transferee unless the parties have agreed to the contrary.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.