In re Mullen’s Empirical Analysis

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7 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions

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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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The right of the bankrupt’s creditors to set aside the conveyance here in question was given by the law of Massachusetts, of which law the statute of 13 Eliz. is a part. See Bump, Fraud. Conv. § 12. The right originally given by the statute of 13 Eliz. has been in some respects modified by the statutes of Massachusetts, and the whole law upon the subject has been interpreted by the decisions of Massachusetts courts. By the interpretation put by those courts upon the law which gives the right I am bound. Schreyer v. Scott, 134 U. S. 405 , 10 Sup. Ct. 579 , 33 L. Ed. 955 , and cases there cited.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Engstrom v. Lowell

2. ““Tlie trustee may avoid any transfer by the bankrupt of Ms property which any creditor of such bankrupt might have avoided, and may recover the property so transferred, or its value, from the person to whom it was transferred,” etc.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Davis v. Willey