In re Ketchum’s Empirical Analysis
1 F. 840 · 1880
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 1907
3 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The seat, however, has an actual pecuniary value, which the rules of the society, as interpreted and applied in practice, permit the holder to realize by a sale and transfer. There is no practical difficulty in effecting a transfer of this right or interest for a pecuniary consideration, subject to the condition that the debts of the present holder to members are first paid; and tlie right or privilege is, to all intents and purposes, a business right or privilege, useful for business purposes only.” “This seat in the board was actually used as part of the business capital of these bankrupts, as stockbrokers. To suffer the bankrupts still to hold it, virtually withdraws several thousand dollars in value of their business assets from the creditors.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Fisher
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.