McKenzie v. Irving Trust Co.’s Empirical Analysis
323 U.S. 365 · 1945
Citation profile
141 federal appellate · 59 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 568 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Richards v. United States (1962), International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America v. Hoosier Cardinal Corp. (1966)
141 federal appellate · 59 district · 18 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 Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Hunt · Salem Trust Co. v. Manufacturers' Finance Co. · Adam v. Saenger
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 568 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“What constitutes a transfer and when it is complete”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“What constitutes a 'transfer' under Sec. 547(b) and when it is complete ... is necessarily a federal question, since it arises under a federal statute designed to have uniform application....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"For the purposes of subdivisions (a) and (b) of this section, a transfer of property other than real property shall be deemed to have been made or suffered at the time when it became so far perfected that no subsequent lien upon such property obtainable by legal or equitable proceedings on a simple contract could become superior to the rights of the transferee. * * *"”
3 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.