Coleman v. Daniel’s Empirical Analysis

1973

Citation profile

cited by 26 later decisions

states following

January 2018

most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Future Group, II v. Nationsbank (1996), Royal Z Lanes, Inc. v. Collins Holding Corp. (1999)

2 federal appellate · 12 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 Gardner v. Kirven · Daniels v. Coleman · Steinmeyer v. Steinmeyer · Jeffords v. Berry · Means v. Feaster

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“[T]he insolvency or indebtedness of the transferor, lack of consideration for the conveyance, relationship between the transferor and the transferee, the pen-dency or threat of litigation, secrecy or concealment, departure from the usual method of business, the transfer of the debtor’s entire estate, the reservation of benefit to the transferor, and the retention by the debtor of possession of the property.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Hovis v. Ducate (In Re Ducate) · First Citizens Bank & Trust Co. v. Park at Durbin Creek, LLC
“Where transfers to members of the family are attacked either upon the ground of actual fraud or on account of their voluntary character, the law imposes the burden on the transferee to establish both a valuable consideration and the bona fides of the transaction by clear and convincing testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Windsor Properties, Inc. v. Dolphin Head Construction Co.

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.