Covington v. Brigman’s Empirical Analysis
210 F. 499 · 1914
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 1933
3 federal appellate · 1 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 Blennerhassett v. Sherman · First Nat. Bank of Buchanan County v. Connett · Cheatham v. . Hawkins · Cohen v. Chambers · Mitchell v. Mitchell
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A chattel mortgage given by a bankrupt on his stock of merchandise, and withheld from record for several months by the mortgagee under a tacit agreement to do so because of the effect which tho record would have on the mortgagor’s credit, is fraudulent and void both as to prior and subsequent creditors.” In re Duggan (C. C. A.) 183 F. 405 . See, also, Covington v. Brigman (D. C.) 210 F. 499 .”
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.