Skilton v. . Codington’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 51 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 174 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1963 · most notably Murphy v. John Hofman Co. (1909), Benedict v. Ratner (1925)
48 federal appellate · 51 district · 52 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Relationships
Relies on Fred Bardes v. First National Bank of Hawarden Iowa · York Manufacturing Company v. Arthur Cassell J B · Eyster v. Gaff · First National Bank of Chicago v. Chicago Title Trust Company · Stewart v. Platt
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 174 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) Claims which for want of record or for other reasons would not have been valid liens as against the claims of the creditors of the bankrupt shall not be liens against his estate.” “(d) Lions given or accepted in good faith and not in contemplation of or In fraud upon this act, and for a present consideration, which have been recorded according to law, if record thereof was necessary in order to impart notice shall not be affected by this act.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““The debtor of a bankrupt, or the man who contests the right to real or personal property with him, loses none of those rights by the bankruptcy of his adversary. The same courts remain open to him in such contests, and the statute has not divested those courts of jurisdiction in such actions.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The rule that a creditor must first recover a judgment is simply one of procedure and does not affect the right. Therefore, where the recovery of a judgment becomes impracticable, it is not an indispensable requisite to enforcing the rights of the creditor.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.