Tappan v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1840
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2004 · most notably Hollins v. Brierfield Coal & Iron Co. (1893), Case v. Beauregard (1879)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 39 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 Hadden v. Spader · 1 Johns. Cas. 436 - Le Guen v. Gouverneur
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general principle dedueible from the authorities applicable to this case is that, where property is subject to execution, and a creditor seeks to have a fraudulent conveyance or obstruction to the levy or sale removed, he may ñle a bill as soon as he has obtained a specific lien up on the property, whether the lien be obtained by attachment, judgment, or the issuing of an execution.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““In relation to real estate fraudulently conveyed by the debtor, one mode of relief in equity is to remove the fraudulent title either before or after a levy, so as to perfect the title acquired under the proceedings at law.*’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.