Bobb v. Woodward’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 1970
1 federal appellate · 12 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 Herrington v. Herrington · Bobb v. Woodward · Potter v. Stevens
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is little doubt that the interest of both debtors and creditors would be better subserved if in all these resulting trusts the creditor were required to ascertain, by judicial decision, the actual interest of the debtor in the property before offering it for sale. * * * If the property is sold before the doubt is solvéd, it necessarily follows that the purchase is subject to all the uncertainty of a gambling adventure. All our observation shows that such interests are bid off at a nominal sum, and, while the debtor is stripped, the creditor receives nothing.””
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.