Bennett v. Ellison’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 1921
7 state decisions
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 Nicholson v. . Leavitt · Gere v. Murray · Brigham v. . Tillinghast
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The intent to effect a compromise by-means of the assignment includes the intent to delay the execution of the trust expressed in it, at least so long as might be necessary for the assignor to ascertain if the creditors would compromise. This was 'an intent to delay'beyond the delay which might be necessarily incident to the 'execution of the trust to sell the property and pay the proceeds to the creditors, and was, therefore, fraudulent. The intent was also thereby to secure a benefit to the assignor, to-wit, a discharge from 'his debts without full payment, and without even the application of .all his property upon those debts. For these reasons the assignment was, as between the assignor and his creditors, void.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boyum v. Jordan
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.