Hennequin v. Clews’s Empirical Analysis
111 U.S. 676 · 1884
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 17 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 205 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2013 · most notably Davis v. Aetna Acceptance Co. (1934), Tinker v. Colwell (1904)
15 federal appellate · 17 district · 51 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Neal v. Clark · Chapman v. Forsyth · Wolf v. Stix · Cronan v. Cotting
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 205 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“technical trusts, and not those which the law implies from contract.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[N]o debt created by the fraud or embezzlement of the bankrupt, or by his defalcation as a public officer, or while acting in any fiduciary character, shall be discharged.” 14 Stat. 533 (1867).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ames v. Moir · In re Gaylord“positive fraud, or fraud in fact involving moral turpitude or intentional wrong, as does embezzlement, and not implied fraud or fraud in law, which may exist without the imputation of bad faith or immorality.”
2 later decisions 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.