Kerbs v. Ewing’s Empirical Analysis
22 F. 693 · 1884
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1946
2 federal appellate ·
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 Alley v. Nott · Martin v. Hausman
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No matter what'the form of the instrument, where a debtor, being insolvent, con-' veys all his property to a third party, to pay one. or more creditors, to the exclusion of others,- such a conveyance will be construed' to be an assignment for the benefit of all the creditors ; the preference being in contravention of the assignment laws of this State,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. White v. Cotzhausen
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.