Dean v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
242 U.S. 438 · 1917
Citation profile
149 federal appellate · 55 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 492 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Levit Vn v. Ingersoll Rand Financial Corporation (1989), Buffum v. Peter Barceloux Co. (1933)
149 federal appellate · 55 district · 16 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedDean v. Davis (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Josiah Coder v. William Arts · Randolph v. Scruggs · Stone v. Mississippi · Walker v. Brown
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 492 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] transfer, the intent (or obviously necessary effect) of which is to deprive creditors of the benefits sought to be secured by the Bankruptcy Act: hinders, delays or defrauds creditors within the meaning of § 67e. . . . Where the advance is made to enable the debtor to make a preferential payment with bankruptcy in contemplation, the transaction presents an element upon which fraud can be predicated.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnstone v. Babb · Chapman v. Hunt““A transfer, the intent (or obviously necessary effect) of which is to deprive creditors of the benefits sought to be secured by the Bankruptcy Act 'hinders, delays or defrauds creditors’ within the meaning of section 67e.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Jones knew that he was insolvent. He knew that he was making a preferential payment. He must have known that suspension of his business and bankruptcy would result from giving and recording a mortgage of all his property to secure a note which had matured before the mortgage was executed. The lower courts were justified in concluding that he intended the necessary consequences of his act; that he willingly sacrificed his property and his other creditors to avert a threatened criminal prosecution;””
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.