Kellog v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
19 F. 70 · 1883
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1978
1 federal appellate ·
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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a merchant may give a mortgage ora deed of trust in part or all' of his property, to secure one or more of his creditors, thus preferring them, but he cannot convey the whole of his prop-, erty to one or more creditors, and Stop doing business. Such turning over and - virtually declaring insolvency brings the instrument or act .by which it is done within the assignment law of Missouri, which requires a distribution of the property of the failing debtor for- the benefit of all the creditors in pro-”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. White v. Cotzhausen“every assignment of lands, tenements, goods, chattels, effects and credits made by a debtor to any person .in trust for his creditors, shall be for the benefit of all the creditors of the. assignor in proportion to' their respective claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. White v. Cotzhausen
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.