Pirie v. Chicago Title & Trust Co.’s Empirical Analysis
182 U.S. 438 · 1901
Citation profile
169 federal appellate · 125 district · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 583 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably Massachusetts v. Mellon (1923), Katchen v. Landy (1966)
169 federal appellate · 125 district · 78 state decisions — followed in 27 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedColumbus Electric Co. v. Worden (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Rector Etc of Holy Trinity Church v. United States · Fred Bardes v. First National Bank of Hawarden Iowa · United States v. Kirby · United States v. Fisher
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 583 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The word is used in its most comprehensive sense, and is intended to include every means and manner by which property can pass from the ownership and possession of another....”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is hardly necessary to assert that the object of a bankrupt act, so far as creditors are concerned, is to secure equality of distribution among them of the property of the bankrupt--not among some of the creditors, but among all of them.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Section 57g ( 30 Stat. 560 [U. S. Oomp. St. 1901, p. 3443]). Claims of creditors wbo bave received preferences shall not be allowed unless such creditors shall surrender their preferences.” “Section 60a ( 30 Stat. 562 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3445]). A person shall be deemed to have given a preference, if being insolvent, he has * * * made a transfer of any of his property and the effect of the enforcement of such transfer will be to enable any one of his creditors to obtain a greater percentage of his debts than any other of such creditors of the same class.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. Nelson · In re Kellar
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.