Thelusson v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
15 U.S. 396 · 1817
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1998 · most notably Sturges v. Crowninshield (1819), United States v. Gilbert Associates, Inc. (1953)
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 17 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 United States v. Fisher · United States v. Hooe Et Al. · United States v. Barker · Rodford v. Craig
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If, therefore, before the right of preference has accrued to the United States, the debtor has made a bona fide conveyance of his estate to a third person, or has mortgaged the same to secure a debt, or if his property has been seized under a fi. fa., the property is divested out of the debtor, and cannot be made liable to the United States.””
2 later decisions 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.