Johnson v. O'BRIEN’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2013
8 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 O'BRIEN v. Johnson · Neubauer v. Cloutier · Thompson v. Schiek
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What we said in Thompson v. Schiek, 171 Minn. 284, 287 , 213 N.W. 911, 912 , applies with equal force in the instant case: “ ‘Payment of an honest debt is not fraudulent under the general statutes against fraudulent conveyances although it operates as a preference, the rule being that a preference by an insolvent debtor of one of his creditors can be avoided only by appropriate proceedings under the bankruptcy law and is not open to attack in an action brought by another creditor.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matusik v. Large““1. When in exchange for such property, or obligation, as a fair equivalent therefor, and in good faith, property is conveyed or an antecedent debt is satisfied. ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matusik v. Large
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.