In re Williams’s Empirical Analysis
120 F. 34 · 1903
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 1940
4 federal appellate · 7 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 Day v. Woodworth · Stewart v. Sonneborn · Oelrichs v. Spain · Mayor v. Cooper · Tullock v. Joab Mulvane
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But, in order to prevent a fraudulent disposition of the property pending the proceedings, it permits a seizure of the assets before the hearing, upon certain allegations, and the execution of a bond to pay the damages which the debtor may sustain by reason of the seizure, if upon a final hearing it is adjudged that the same was wrongful, in the same manner as in ordinary eases, when the same object is sought by a resort to proceedings by attachment. The only innovation to be found in the act is that attorney’s fees and expenses incurred by the successful debtor are to be elements of the damages awarded to him, not for the wrongful proceedings to have him adjudged a bankrupt, but for the wrongful ‘seizure, taking, and detention’ of his property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Hines““The debtor [Williams] is a gambler, traveling from place to place plying Ms vocation. He arrived at Hot Springs, Arkansas, in tbis district, and had carried on Ms business there for two months prior to the filing of the petition to have him adjudicated a bankrupt, which was for a longer period than he has carried on his business or resided in any other district.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Long v. Lockman
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.