Cohen v. Chambers’s Empirical Analysis
183 F. 405 · 1910
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 1969
11 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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 Kehr v. Smith · George Day Bowen Matlock Isaac Frothingham and George Warner v. William a Washburn and John a Keith · Henry Parish v. Caleb Murphree Administrator of George Goffe Deceased · Clayton v. Exchange Bank · Mitchell v. Mitchell
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A chattel mortgage given by a bankrupt on his stock of merchandise, and withheld from record for several months by the mortgagee under a tacit agreement to do so because of the effect which tho record would have on the mortgagor’s credit, is fraudulent and void both as to prior and subsequent creditors.” In re Duggan (C. C. A.) 183 F. 405 . See, also, Covington v. Brigman (D. C.) 210 F. 499 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““When the mortgage is declared void, the trustee holds the mortgaged property unincumbered by the mortgage, and it is subject to pro rata distribution just as any other property of the bankrupt.” Bank v. Shackelford, 208 Fed. 677 , 125 C. C. A. 575 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Covington v. Brigman
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.