Severs v. Dodson’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 1969
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 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.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have said the complainant's case does not fall within this evidential rule, the reason being that they were not creditors of the donor. The latter was an accommodation endorser of current notes, and the situation did not constitute him a debtor. His assumptions might not have ripened into debts; whether they would have that effect was altogether contingent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Conway v. Raphel“that if a person be indebted to another at the time of a voluntary settlement made by him, such disposition is presumed to be fraudulent with respect to such debt, and no circumstance will suffice to repel the legal presumption of fraud,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vail v. Diamond
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.