Ames v. Moir’s Empirical Analysis
138 U.S. 306 · 1891
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 6 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2013 · most notably Crawford v. Burke (1904), Constance Mercer At&t Universal Card Services v. Constance P Mercer (2001)
8 federal appellate · 6 district · 11 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.
Relationships
Relies on Neal v. Clark · Strang v. Bradner · Hennequin v. Clews · James Carver v. James Jackson · Noble v. Hammond
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“positive fraud, or fraud in fact involving moral turpitude or intentional wrong, as does embezzlement, and not implied fraud or fraud in law, which may exist without the imputation of bad faith or immorality.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the act of Congress defining the debts from which a bankrupt is not relieved by a discharge in bankruptcy means”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““No debt created by the fraud or embezzlement of the bankrupt, or by his defalcation as a public officer, or while acting in any fiduciary character, shall be discharged by proceedings in bankruptcy; but the debt may be proved and the dividend thereon shall be a payment on account of such debt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Nuttall
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.