Kneeland v. Luce’s Empirical Analysis
141 U.S. 491 · 1891
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1939 · most notably Colorado & Southern Railway Co. v. Blair (1915), Atlantic Trust Co. v. Dana (1903)
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 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 Union Trust Co of New York v. Illinois Midland Ry Co Borg · Miltenberger v. Logansport Railway Co. · Burnham v. Bowen · Wallace v. Loomis · Jerome v. McCarter
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The bondholders had no legal mortgage thereon, but only an equitable lien. The bondholders, who now object to the priority of the receiver's certificates, were parties to the suit in which the decree was rendered, by their trustees and committee. No appeal was taken from that decree, nor were any steps taken to set it aside. * * * Under all the circumstances of the case, the bondholders are precluded from claiming priority over the receiver's certificates, which were issued for the *Page 417 purpose of preserving the mortgaged property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Where such [receiver’s certificates] are issued, and the court, as In this case, impresses upon them a preferential lien, good faith requires that its promise should be redeemed, unless, perhaps, it be shown that the issue of the certificates was actually fraudulent.” 141 U. S. 508 , 12 Sup. Ct. 38 , 35 L. Ed. 836 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“As to receiver's certificates issued, with the sanction of the court, after the trustees become parties, the purchasers and holders should be accorded such rights as, by the settled principles of equity, are accorded to those who deal with judicial tribunals having jurisdiction in the premises.”
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.