Rhodes v. Elliston’s Empirical Analysis
29 F.2d 737 · 1928
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 2021
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it was not binding on the bankrupt estate, because the trustee was not made a party defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coleman v. Alcock“The judgment was a personal one against the bankrupt,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coleman v. Alcock
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.