Hempstead v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
1856
Citation profile
1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2022
1 district · 13 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 Mauldin, Montague & Co. v. Armistead · Randall v. Cook · Elmes v. Sutherland · Magee v. Carpenter · Kinnard v. Thompson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because its effect is to hinder and delay the creditors of the grantor in the collection of their claims. But such must be its object. It must be a fraudulent contrivance for that purpose; and the grantee, or person to be benefited by the conveyance, must be party privy to the fraudulent design.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Emerson v. Senter
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.