Tumlin v. Bryan’s Empirical Analysis
165 F. 166 · 1908
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 12 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1942 · most notably Cunningham v. Brown (1924), National City Bank v. Hotchkiss (1913)
13 federal appellate · 12 district · 1 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 Grant v. National Bank · Stucky v. Masonic Savings Bank · In re Meyer · Vaccaro v. Security Bank · Ludowici Roofing Tile Co. v. Pennsylvania Inst. for Instruction of the Blind
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Reasonable cause to believe that a preference was intended cannot be held to be proved by circumstances that would merely excite suspicion. And circumstances may seem suspicious after the bankruptcy occurs that would not appear unusual at the time of their occurrence, and would then have presented no ‘reasonable cause’ on which to found a belief of intended preference.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is not shown what property was owned by the firm in July. 100(5, at the date of the payments, nor is the value of the property then owned by it proved, and, besides, we And no evidence showing what property was owned, by the individual members of the bankrupt firm in July, 1000.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re McDonald““The reasonable implication of the statute, it has been held, is that the debtor himself must have intended the preference. In re First Rational Bank, 155 Fed. 100 [ 84 C. C. A. 16 ]; Hardy v. Gray, 144 Fed. 922 [ 75 C. C. A. 562 ].””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Debus v. Yates
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.