Dickson v. Wyman’s Empirical Analysis
111 F. 726 · 1901
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 1985 · most notably Joseph Wild Company v. Provident Life & Trust Company (1909), Jaquith v. Alden (1903)
12 federal appellate · 8 district ·
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 Pirie v. Chicago Title & Trust Co. · Simon v. Craft · Derby v. Worcester County · McKey v. Lee
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is beyond all reason to hold because a creditor has, in the ordinary course of business, during the four months preceding bankruptcy, received payments which, under some circumstances, might operate as a preference in some views of the law, that that fact can be held to bar the proof of his claim, when, looking at all the transactions together, they demonstrate, not only that they were without any intention to acquire any unjust preference, but also that they have increased the net indebtedness to the creditor, and correspondingly increased the bankrupt’s estate. In order to avoid so unreasonable a result, we might say that all the transactions covered by the account current should be regarded as one, so that it could not be held that the effect of the payments was to enable the creditors at bar to obtain a greater percentage of their debt than any other creditor of the same class, within the meaning of paragraph a of section 60.” 49 C. C. A. 577 , 111 Fed. 728 .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The claims of creditors who have received preferences shall not be allowed unless such creditors shall surrender their preferences.””
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.