Lane v. Nickerson’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 1946
11 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 Wincock v. Turpin
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But the unpaid subscriptions sought to be collected were a part of the assets of the corporation, and hence they passed by the decree in bankruptcy to Harvey, the assignee, and he alone was, thereafter, the party in whose name suit must have been brought for their collection. Sanger v. Upton, 1 Otto (91 U. S.) 56; Erwin v. United States, 7 Otto (97 U. S.) 392; Glenny v. Langdon, 8 Otto (98 U. S.) 20. Nor does the fact that the assignee has failed (for whatever cause it may have been) to bring the suit within two years from the date of his appointment, give creditors the right to bring such suits in their own names. Trimble v. Woodhead, 102 U. S. (12 Otto) 647.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ryerson v. Peden
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.