Richardson v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 1945 · most notably Ward v. New York Life Insurance (1919), Rogers v. Penobscot Mining Co. (1907)
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 19 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 James v. City of Newton · Stearns v. Quincy Mutual Fire Insurance · Low v. Welch
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Insolvent laws, do not put the assignee in the position of a bona fide purchaser of property of which the insolvent had the bare legal title.” Holmes, J., Richardson v. White, 167 Mass. 58 , 44 N. E. 1072 . “Property held in trust does not imss to them” (trustees in bankruptcy). Holmes, C. J., Emery v. Boston Terminal Co., 178 Mass. 184 , 59 N. E. 763 , 86 Am. St. Rep. 473 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Snelling
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.