Clarke v. White’s Empirical Analysis
37 U.S. 178 · 1838
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 10 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Keystone Driller Co. v. General Excavator Co. (1933), Shappirio v. Goldberg (1904)
10 federal appellate · 10 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If, upon failure of insolvency, one creditor goes into a contract of general composition common to the others, at the same time having an underhand agreement with the debtor to have a larger per cent, such agreement is'fraudulent and void, and cannot be enforced against the debtor or any surety to it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wheeler v. Pettyjohn
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.