Thatcher v. Rockwell’s Empirical Analysis
105 U.S. 467 · 1881
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1983 · most notably Meyer v. Fleming (1946), Sparhawk v. Yerkes (1891)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Eyster v. Gaff · Herndon v. Howard
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is no defence to the debt that the creditor has become a bankrupt ; and if an assignee, after notice, permits a pending suit to proceed in the name of the bankrupt for its recovery, he is bound by any judgment that may be rendered. This is a sufficient protection for the debtor.”
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.