National Bank of Newport v. National Herkimer County Bank of Little Falls’s Empirical Analysis
225 U.S. 178 · 1912
Citation profile
146 federal appellate · 51 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 445 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably Dean v. Davis (1917), National City Bank v. Hotchkiss (1913)
146 federal appellate · 51 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMason v. National Herkimer County Bank of Little Falls (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on New York County National Bank v. Massey · Western Tie Timber Company v. Ben a Brown S F · Walbrun v. Babbitt · Rogers v. Palmer
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 445 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To constitute a preference, it is not necessary that the transfer be made directly to the creditor. It may be made to another, for his benefit. If the bankrupt has made a transfer of his property, the effect of which is to enable one of his creditors to obtain a greater percentage of his debt than another creditor of the same class, circuity of arrangement will not avail to save it.””
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is not the mere form or method of the transaction that the act condemns, but the appropriation by the insolvent debtor of a portion of his property to the payment of a creditor's claim, so that thereby the estate is depleted * * *.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to obtain a greater percentage of his debt than some other creditor of the same class.”
3 later decisions 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.