Arn v. Hoerseman’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1936
6 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The debtor has a right, even when financially embarrassed, even when in failing circumstances, to prefer one creditor over another,.if he chooses to do so.' This is necessarily so, for if he could not prefer one creditor over another,it would be difficult for bim to pay any creditor. Of course the preferred creditor must act in good faith, and must not obfain more than is honestly and justly due him; and if he does so act in good faith he does not become liable to any other creditor, although his act, with that of the debtor, may have the effect to wholly defeat ,the collection of all other creditors’ claims. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hadley v. Adsit
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.