In re Rodgers’s Empirical Analysis
125 F. 169 · 1903
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1955 · most notably Whitney v. Wenman (1905), First National Bank of Chicago v. Chicago Title Trust Company (1905)
13 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Mueller v. Nugent · Hervey v. Rhode Island Locomotive Works · Harkness v. Russell · Neely v. Henkel (No. 2) · Michael Dooley v. James Pease
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The filing of the petition, followed by seizure and by adjudication In bankruptcy, is a seizure of the property by the law for the benefit of creditors, and an appropriation of it to the payment of the debts of the bankrupt. It is a seizure of the property by legal process, equal in rank'to and of the same force and effect as by execution or attachment.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““With respect to the right to attack transfers or incumbrances by the bankrupt, as either actually or constructively fraudulent, the trustee stands in the same position as an attachment or execution creditor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Hickerson“Storage and charges as per contract on file with this company.”
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.