Palmer Clay Products Co. v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
297 U.S. 227 · 1936
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 25 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 415 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2020 · most notably State v. Coleman (1965), Merrill v. Abbott (In Re Independent Clearing House Co.) (1987)
60 federal appellate · 25 district · 4 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 W. S. Peck & Co. v. Whitmer · Bronx Brass Foundry, Inc., v. Irving Trust Co. · Rubenstein v. Lottow · Brown v. Palmer Clay Products Co.
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 415 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether a creditor has received a preference is to be determined, not by what the situation would have been if the debtor’s assets had been liquidated and distributed among his creditors at the time the alleged preferential payment was made, but by the actual effect of the payment as determined when bankruptcy results.”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“one of the [debtor's] creditors to obtain a greater percentage of his debt than any other of such creditors of the same class.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.