Shanks v. Hardin’s Empirical Analysis
101 F.2d 177 · 1939
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2015
3 federal appellate ·
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 Maples v. Rawlins · Meacham v. Meacham · J. I. Case Co. v. Joyce
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]n contemplation of bankruptcy, and in an effort to convert non-exempt property to exempt property, so that the same could not be reached by creditors, and that homestead might be claimed against creditors, which he would not otherwise be entitled to, and to defeat creditors, G.H. Shanks * * * ” procured the execution by his brothers and sisters of deeds to himself, conveying 25 acres of the farm as his sole and separate property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Hall“[t]he fraud seems to consist in this: the debtor who has property subject to his creditor’s claim, by his own act places it beyond their reach, and secures to himself all the benefits to be derived from it.”
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.