Big Four Implement Co. v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
207 F. 535 · 1913
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1965
9 federal appellate · 1 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 Harkness v. Russell · Bryant v. Swofford Bros. Dry Goods Co. · Rock Island Plow Co. v. Reardon · Dunlop v. Mercer · First Nat. Bank of Buchanan County v. Connett
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““These being contracts of conditional sale, there is no foundation'for the claim that the filing of them within four months of the bankruptcy constituted a preference. There could be no preference without a transfer by the bankrupt of his property. If there were any transfer in this case, it is evidenced by these instruments, dated December 8,1910, and January 23, 1911. But they transferred no property of Bell. They expressly refrained from transferring any to him.””
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.