Clark v. Snelling’s Empirical Analysis
205 F. 240 · 1913
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 1983
6 federal appellate · 4 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 Mueller v. Nugent · York Manufacturing Company v. Arthur Cassell J B · In re Snelling
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And such trustees, as to all property in the custody or coming into the custody of the bankruptcy court, shall be deemed vested with all the rights, remedies and powers of a creditor holding a lien by legal or equitable proceedings thereon; and also, as to all property not in the custody of the bankruptcy court, shall be deemed vested with all the rights, remedies, and powers of a judgment creditor holding an execution duly returned unsatisfied.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If, in most states, sueh a creditor [a judgment creditor] would have a lien, in Massachusetts he would not, unless before his judgment he had attached the land. Not having so attached it) his judgment and execution would give him no rights in it before he had taken it on execution.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vincent v. Tafeen
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.