McKey v. Paradise’s Empirical Analysis
299 U.S. 119 · 1936
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2010 · most notably Auto-Train Corp. v. Midland-Ross Corp. (1987), Mahon v. Stowers (1974)
31 federal appellate · 25 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedParadise v. McKey (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on National City Bank v. Hotchkiss · Blakey v. Brinson · Jennings v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Adams v. Champion
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No fund was segregated or set up by special deposit or in any manner.... The bankrupt was a debtor which had failed to pay its debt. We know of no principle upon which that failure can be treated as a conversion of property held in trust.... It would be impossible to state all the circumstances in which equity will fasten a constructive trust upon property in order to frustrate a violation of fiduciary duty. But the mere failure to pay a debt does not belong in that category.”
2 later decisions 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.