King v. Pomeroy’s Empirical Analysis
121 F. 287 · 1903
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1941 · most notably Bernheimer v. Converse (1907), Brown v. O'Keefe (1937)
16 federal appellate · 4 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 Cohens v. Virginia · Cohens v. Virginia · United States v. Wong Kim Ark · Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. · Richmond v. Irons
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a corporation becomes insolvent, all its property and all the liabilities of the grantors of its obligations constitute a trust fund pledged to the payments of its debts. And in eases where through fraud or maladministration this fund is being diverted from those who are entitled to receive it, the power is vested in, and the duty is imposed upon, courts of equity to appoint a receiver, to direct him to convert these trust funds into money, and to distribute the proceeds among the creditors. * * * Such a suit falls within the jurisdiction of a court of equity because it is a suit to execute a trust, because it'avoids a multiplicity of suits by each of many creditors, and because the creditors have no adequate remedy at law.””
1 later decision 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.