Ford v. Caspers’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Plaintiff and defendant did then, or shortly thereafter, devise a scheme of hindering, delaying, and defrauding the bondholders from collecting against plaintiff on the bonds. Plaintiff executed deeds drawn by defendant conveying all of plaintiff’s real estate, in Illinois, Indiana and Florida, including the Wau-Bun property,. to his daughters and their husbands residing in Indiana. Those deeds were recorded. At or about the same time, other deeds drawn by defendant and executed by the said nominees, reconveying the same properties to plaintiff and his wife, were taken back by plaintiff. The latter deeds were not recorded. Plaintiff was not indebted to his daughters or their husbands. * * * * * “Plaintiff knew what was going on, and that he was engaged in a shady transaction. “Plaintiff and defendant set out in 1933 to do an unlawful act, to-wit: to hinder, delay and defraud creditors of the plaintiff and to make a mockery of the processes of a local Court of Chancery that was later to adjudicate the issues involved in the foreclosure suit on the Wau-Bun property, and they accomplished it. The plaintiff’s fraud in this transaction extends right down through the entire history of his dealings with the defendant, and with his bondholders.” (See Ford v. Caspers, supra, for complete findings.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ford v. Caspers