Schuyler v. Littlefield’s Empirical Analysis
232 U.S. 707 · 1914
Citation profile
128 federal appellate · 35 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 344 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably Cunningham v. Brown (1924), Texas Pac Ry Co v. Pottorff (1934)
128 federal appellate · 35 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 12 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on National Bank v. Insurance Co. · Peters v. Bain · Hurley v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · Gorman v. Littlefield
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 344 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here one has deposited trust funds in his individual bank account, and the mingled fund is at any time wholly depleted, the trust fund is thereby dissipated, and cannot be treated as reappearing in sums subsequently deposited to the credit of the same account.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““One seeking to charge a fund in the hands of a trustee for the benefit of all creditors as being the proceeds of his property and therefore a special trust fund for him, has the burden of proof; and if he is unable to identify the fund as representing the proceeds of his property, his claim must fail as all doubt must be resolved in favor of the trustee who represents all creditors.””
1 later decision 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.