Ratcliff v. Clendenin’s Empirical Analysis
232 F. 61 · 1916
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 1961
11 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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 Upton Assignee v. Tribilcock · Hollins v. Brierfield Coal & Iron Co. · Sanger v. Upton · Scott v. Deweese · Sarah Boone v. William Chiles
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As the plaintiff failed to prove that the elevator company was insolvent when the $4,-500 was paid to Ratcliff, it failed to establish the fact that that sum or any part of it was ever charged with any enforceable trust or equitable lien in favor of any creditor of the corporation or in favor of the trustee in bankruptcy. A solvent corporation, like a solvent individual, holds its property free from any enforceable trust or equitable lien in favor of its creditors. It is only when it becomes insolvent that such a trust or lien in favor, first, of its creditors, and, second, of its stockholders, attaches to its property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sweet v. Lang
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.