Keppel v. Tiffin Savings Bank’s Empirical Analysis
197 U.S. 356 · 1905
Citation profile
168 federal appellate · 64 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 375 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2023 · most notably Commissioner v. Acker (1959), United States v. Naftalin (1979)
168 federal appellate · 64 district · 43 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Pirie v. Chicago Title & Trust Co. · New York County National Bank v. Massey · Tiffany v. National Bank · In re Richard
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 375 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not to be subjected to a penalty unless the words of the statute plainly impose it,”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(Jan a creditor of a bankrupt, who has received a merely voidable preference, and who has in good faith retained such preference until deprived thereof by the judgment of a court upon a suit of tbe trustee, thereafter prove the debt so voidably preferred T’”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Fagan · In re Kemper“[I]t cannot in reason be said that the omission ... gives rise to the implication that it was the intention of Congress to reenact it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.