Doty v. Wheeler’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2009 · most notably Secondino v. New Haven Gas Co. (1960), Gaudio v. Gaudio (1990)
23 state decisions
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 Ford v. H. W. Dubiskie & Co. · Middletown Trust Co. v. Bregman · Katz v. Richman · Daly Brothers, Inc. v. Spallone · Meade v. Smith
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The principle is well established that a bona fide transfer of property for an adequate and valuable consideration, even though the grantor be in failing circumstances or insolvent at the time, may be good as to creditors, nor will it be invalidated because the consideration in whole or in part was a past indebtedness.”
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.