Blumenthal v. Blumenthal’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably Foster v. Evans (1981), State Street Trust Co. v. Hall (1942)
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 19 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 Commonwealth v. Welosky · Swan v. Justices of Superior Court · Stockbridge v. Mixer · Weidman v. Weidman · Decatur v. Auditor of Peabody
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“These statutory remedies furnish a method by which a claim at common law, when proven to be valid, may be satisfied out of the debtor’s property. The essential basis of the proceeding is an indebtedness that could ordinarily be enforced in an action of contract, and the nature of the claim is in no way changed by the form of procedure. The claim is asserted in the form of a bill of complaint in order that, if proved, it may have the benefit of an equitable remedy to secure its satisfaction. The remedy is incidental to the claim. 21 N.E.2d at 246 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is true that the plaintiff comes within the literal description of a creditor as set forth in Chapter 109A, § 1, as she ‘is a person having any claim, whether matured or unmatured, liquidated or unliquidated, absolute, fixed or contingent’ ... [citations omitted] The legislative intent in defining the term creditor was to extend the benefits of the fraudulent conveyance statutes to those having unliquidated, unmatured or contingent claims; but the extension was based entirely on the nature of the claim”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.