George Beaston v. The Farmers' Bank of Delaware’s Empirical Analysis
37 U.S. 102 · 1838
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 18 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 160 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2013 · most notably United States v. Wise (1962), Bramwell v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. (1926)
54 federal appellate · 18 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 United States v. Fisher · The United States v. The State Bank of North Carolina · Robert Brent v. The President and Directors of the Bank of Washington · United States v. Hooe Et Al.
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 160 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The act applies to all debts due from deceased debtors, whenever their estates are insufficient to pay all creditors, and extends to all debts due from insolvent living debtors when their insolvency is shown in any of the ways stated in section 3466. The decisions of this court show that no lien is created by the statute; that priority does not attaeh while the debtor continues the owner and in possession of the property; that no evidence can be received of the insolvency of the debt- or until he has been divested of his property in one of the modes stated; and that, ‘whenever he is thus divested of his property, the person who becomes invested with the title, is thereby made a trustee for the United States, and is bound to pay their debt first out of the proceeds of the debtor’s property.’ ””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Whenever any person indebted to the United States is insolvent, * * * the debts due to the United States shall be first satisfied; and the priority hereby established shall extend as well to cases in which a debtor, not having sufficient property to pay all his debts, makes a voluntary assignment thereof, or in which the estate and effects of an absconding, concealed, or absent debtor are attached by process of law, as to cases in which an act of bankruptcy is committed.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The United States are to be first satisfied; but then, it must be out of the debtor’s estate. If, therefore, before the right of preference has accrued to the United States, the debtor has made a bona fide conveyance of his estate to a third person, or has mortgaged the same to Secure a debt, or if his property has been seized under a fi. fa., the property is divested out of the debtor, and cannot be made liable to the United States.”
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.