407 F. Supp. 609 - Sacklow v. Vecchione’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Rosen v. Bezner (1993), Martin First Federated Life Insurance Co v. A Martin
10 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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. United States Gypsum Co. · Heyman v. Commerce & Industry Insurance · Simon v. United States · Costello v. Fazio · American Packing & Provision Co. v. United States
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[pjersons whose intention it is to shield their assets from creditor attack while continuing to derive the equitable benefit of those assets rarely announce their purpose. Instead, if their intention is to be known, it must be gleaned from inferences drawn from a course of conduct, (citations omitted).”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... the transfer to a third party of legal title to property with the retention of a secret interest by the bankrupt. If the transfer is absolute, even if it was in fraud of creditors it cannot form a specification of objection under 14c(l). (Cite omitted). The property must, in effect, be held in trust for the bankrupt. (Cites omitted).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Finally, In re Molden, supra, relied on by the bankrupt for the proposition that a secret trust is not established by virtue of the bankrupts continuing to live in the houses after the transfer, is inapposite. In Molden, supra, the bankrupt had quit-claimed to his wife his interest in jointly owned property in consideration for her surrendering two of his promissory notes. The objecting creditor there argued that since the bankrupt continued to reside on the conveyed premises, a secret trust should be held to exist. In rejecting that argument, the Court of Appeals stated, ‘We cannot agree that in these circumstances, a secret trust has been shown to exist.’ 300 F.2d at 8 . The circumstances undoubtedly alluded to were that it was the bankrupt’s wife who not only made the total cash down-payment for the house but also paid the mortgage, taxes and all other expenses out of funds either earned or inherited by here. Here, all expenses relating to the houses were paid both before and after the conveyances out of money earned by the bankrupts, (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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