Barbour v. Priest’s Empirical Analysis
103 U.S. 293 · 1880
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 12 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2009 · most notably Mechanics' & Metals National Bank v. Ernst (1913), In re Eggert (1900)
9 federal appellate · 12 district · 35 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 Grant v. National Bank
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Such person must have reasonable cause to believe that the grantor in the conveyance was insolvent at the time it was executed, and that it was made with intention to defeat the bankrupt law. Both these must exist as i'aets which the grantee had reasonable cause to believe.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Eggert · Hardy v. Gray
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.