Schmitz v. Stockman’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 1993
4 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 United States v. Snyder · Kipp v. Goffe · United States v. Beaver Run Coal Co. · Brecheisen v. Clark · C. C. Isely Lumber Co. v. Kitch
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A debtor may in good faith prefer one creditor to another and the diligent creditor is entitled to protection if he is in good faith protecting his own claim as against others. The mere fact that an insolvent debtor pays one creditor in full, and in doing so absorbs all of his assets, is not of itself evidence of an intention to hinder, delay or defraud other creditors---- Under the established law of this state a debtor has a right to prefer creditors, and in doing so may pay or secure one of his creditors so long as such performance is in payment of a bona fide preexisting indebtedness.”
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.