Shropshire Woodlife v. Bush’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably In Re Wingspread Corp. (1990), Home Indemnity Co. v. F. H. Donovan Painting Co. (1963)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Hughes
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tlie priority is attached to the debt, and not to the person of the creditor; to the claim, and not to the claimant.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“These debts were exactly within the description of those to which the bankruptcy act gives priority of payment, and they did not cease to be within that description by their assignment to another. The character of the debts was fixed when they were incurred, and could not be changed by an assignment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The debts to have priority, in advance of the payment of dividends to creditors, and to be paid in full out of bankrupt estates, and the order of payment, shall be * * * (2) wages * * * due to workmen * *”
1 later decision 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.