Funk v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Coats v. Milner · Steelman v. Atchley · Bank of Hartford v. McDonald · Dickerson v. Hamby · Jonesboro, Lake City & Eastern Railroad v. Board of Directors of St. Francis Levee 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The trend of all modern decisions is toward liberality in the allowance of set-offs in the case of insolvency of the party against whom the set-off is claimed, to the end that only the true balance may be required to be paid to the representative of the estate of the insolvent, . . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jarvis v. Hammons
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.