Harman v. Defatta’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2001 · most notably Thigpen v. Thigpen (1956), Succession of Nelson (1953)
34 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 Muser v. Magone · Wall v. United Gas Public Service Co. · Louisville & N. R. v. R. E. E. De Montluzin Co. · Ventrilla v. Tortorice · Grandison v. National Bank of Commerce
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A dation en paiment by an insolvent debtor to one of his creditors cannot be set aside merely and solely because the transferee is a creditor and the indebtedness the consideration of the transfer, because it might well be that the transfer was not injurious to the other creditors. Such cases are not within the scope of the revocatory action; one of the elements of which is injury to the other creditors." (citation omitted)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In the absence of testimony to the contrary, it is presumed that a transfer made by an insolvent debtor to one of his creditors in consideration of a past-due debt results in injury to the other creditors.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“are not equal in amount to the debts, the debtor is insolvent. The only way to make a fair appraisement of property is to find its”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.