Brittain v. Crowther’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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

1. “"While the cases may not be entirely harmonious upon the question of the husband’s right under these modern statutes to the earnings of his wife for labor performed by her for third persons, the authorities are uniform that such statutes do not operate to give the wife a legal claim upon her husband or his estate for wages for performing her domestic duties as a wife, or for aiding and assisting him by her labor in any business pursuit he may be en gaged in, and any promise of the husband to pay his wife for siich services is without consideration and void as against the claims of his creditors, and-property transferred to the wife by the husband to pay for such services long after they were rendered, and after he has become insolvent Or is largely in debt, may be seized and appropriated to the payment of the husband’s debts.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Suckle

2. ““A full consideration, paid in cash, will not protect a purchaser who has notice, actual or constructive, that the vendor is selling to defraud, hinder, or delay his creditors; and the reason is that by aiding the debtor, to convert his visible and tangible property, which cannot readily be concealed from his creditors, into money or negotiable securities, which it is easy to put beyond their reach, the purchaser thereby assists the debtor to carry out his fraudulent purpose.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Creekmore v. Overton