Scott v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 1949
11 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 American National Bank v. Madison · Hall v. Wright · McFarland v. Hatchett · Virginia Iron, Coal & Coke Co. v. Dye · Mitchell v. Simpson
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under our statutes, a conveyance which is actually fraudulent as to the grantor’s creditors is void as to subsequent purchasers for value from the grantor, such purchasers not being affected by either actual or constructive notice of the conveyance, and a conveyance which is merely voluntary, and therefore only constructively fraudulent, is void as to such purchasers, unless they have actual notice of the conveyance, constructive notice not being sufficient to affect them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blackburn v. Smith
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.