Clark v. Henne & Meyer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 7 district ·

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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Where, upon the proposal made at a meeting of all the creditors but one, of ¿n insolvent debtor, he executes, a transfer in the form of a deed of trust or chattel mortgage in the usual form, with power of sale and condition of defeasance of his stock of goods, wares, and merchandise, and all evidences of indebtedness to a trustee, to apply the proceeds of sale as therein stated, the creditors are estopped from setting up such conveyances as a ground to support an adjudication of bankruptcy against the debtor.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Taylor House Ass'n

2. “,or alter its commission lie so acted with, regard to it that he gave others the right to act on the faith of its validity so far as his subsequent conduct would affect it. On the one hand, it would be gross inequity to allow him to subject the debtor to judgment for an act he induced; and, on the other,_ it would be equally unjust to allow him to repudiate, as invalid, a_transaction, when by his conduct he had induced others to change their position on the faith of its validity.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ohio Motor Car Co. v. Eiseman Magneto Co.