Thomsen v. Cullen’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2015
21 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 Kneeland v. American Loan & Trust Co. · Thomas v. Western Car Co. · American Iron Steel Manufacturing Company v. Seaboard Air Line Railway · People v. . American Loan Trust Co. · Dudley & Carpenter v. Hurst, Miller & Co.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is only in a very limited class of cases that property subject to a prior lien can properly be subjected to the'expenses of a receivership conducted principally in the interest of subsequent creditors and stockholders. The principal exception to the rule is that of a receiver operating the property of a public utility which is charged with the duty of furnishing services to the public. ... If the contentions of the receiver in this case are to be upheld, then a lienholder upon a manufacturing plant becomes in virtual effect a stockholder in the plant, subject to all the hazards of operation of the business by the court. Here the receivership proceedings were begun primarily in the interest of subsequent creditors and stockholders. ... It is conceivable at least that an operating receivership might be conducted for the benefit of a mortgagee as well as of subsequent claimants, in which event an entirely different situation would arise.””
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.