Bentley v. Caille’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably 37 Ohio App. 3d 162 - Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery of Canton, Inc. v. DiMazzio (1987), Lasich v. Estate of Wickstrom (In Re Wickstrom) (1990)
2 federal appellate · 10 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 Shauer v. Alterton · Walker v. Cady · Timmer v. Pietrzyk · Detroit & Security Trust Co. v. Gitre · Snider v. Schaffer
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Badges of fraud are not conclusive, but are more or less strong or weak according to their nature and the number concurring in the same case, and may be overcome by evidence establishing the bona fides of the transaction. However, a concurrence of several badges will always make out a strong case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Every conveyance made and every obligation incurred with actual Intent, as distinguished from intent presumed in law, to hinder, delay, or defraud either present or future creditors, is fraudulent as to both present and future creditors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““When insolvency is combined with a reservation ' in the grantor of the life use of the property conveyed, there is a most compelling indication of fraud.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dean v. Torrence
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.