Claflin v. Foley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions

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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A deed, conveying a stock of goods and merchandise and notes and accounts of a merchant to a trustee to secure the payment of notes not then due, which provides that said conveyance shall cover ‘such goods and merchandise as may be added to said stock, from time to time, by the grantor and brought into the store in course of business or to take the place of such goods as may hereafter be sold,’ but does not authorize to take possession or control of said goods until the grantor has made default in the payment of one or more of said notes and has been requested to do so by the holder or holders of such note or notes, is as against the unsecured creditors of the grantor fraudulent and void on its face, although it provides that the ‘trustee, by himself or by his agent or attorney, shall at once take possession,’ of the notes and accounts transferred by such deed and collect the same for the benefit of the trust creditors.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Swager v. Smith