Fisher v. Cushman’s Empirical Analysis
103 F. 860 · 1900
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 11 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2006 · most notably Segal v. Rochelle (1966), Kokoszka v. Belford (1974)
24 federal appellate · 11 district · 2 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 Missouri v. Lewis · Beer Company v. Massachusetts · Fertilizing Company v. Hyde Park · Chicago Co v. State of Nebraska City of Omaha · Sparhawk v. Yerkes
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'(i)t is impossible to give any categorical definition to the word "property,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) The trustee of the estate of a bankrupt ... shall ... be vested by operation of law with the title of the bankrupt as of the date of the filing of the petition initiating a proceeding under this title, except insofar as it is property which is held to be exempt, to all of the following kinds of property wherever located ... (5) property, including rights of action, which prior to the filing of the petition he could by any means have transferred or which might have been levied upon or sold under judicial process against him, or otherwise seized, impounded, or sequestered....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burgess v. Sikes““We cannot concede that there are any authorities of so precise a character as would prevent a court of bankruptcy from realizing capital thus locked up.””
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.