Denny v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
128 U.S. 489 · 1888
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2009 · most notably Truax v. Corrigan (1921), Hanover National Bank v. Moyses (1902)
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 55 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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 Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward · Sturges v. Crowninshield · Covell v. Heyman · Ogden v. Saunders · Payne v. Hook
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The objection to the extraterritorial operation of a. state insolvent law is that it cannot, like the bankrupt law passed by Congress under its constitutional grant of power, release all debtors from the obligation of the debt. ' The authority .to deal with the property of the debtor within the State, so far as it does not impair the obligation of contracts, is conceded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Smart““It was merely a decision of a motion or summary application, which is not to be regarded in the light of res ad judicata, or as so far conclusive upon the parties as to prevent their drawing the same matters in question again in the more regular form of an action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vickers v. Vickers
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.