Dickinson v. Saunders’s Empirical Analysis
129 F. 16 · 1904
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 1973
4 federal appellate · 3 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 Kneeland v. American Loan & Trust Co. · Southern Railway Company v. Carnegie Steel Company · Mellen v. Moline Malleable Iron Works · Central Trust Co. v. McGeorge · Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad Company v. United States
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is simply a question between different classes of unsecured creditors; that is, between those who, on the one hand, are understood to gi-ve credit, and those, who, on the other, furnish labor with no intention of credit, but with the expectation of immediately being paid from day to day out of the accruing earnings of the property. Therefore the questions arise whether there is such an equity, and, if yes, what is its extent? This equity, if it exists at all, is, of course, applicable to all classes of employers whose property comes into the hands of chancery for administration.” ,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“his office might lay hold of under some circumstances.” This applies here where the bankruptcy statutes of-the United States would protect these taxes in proceedings in bank7 ruptcy if they accrued before the proceedings commenced. This points out a determined policy of the bankruptcy statutes which the chancel- ' lor would be entitled to regard in view of the fact that the special circumstances of the case in that respect, do not reach the merits of the claim. Further illustrations of the extent of the equitable powers of the chancellor with reference”
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.