Wolfsheimer v. Rivinus’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate ·

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. ““If the trust is for the general benefit of the creditors, the expenses incurred in the preparation and recording of the deed are equally for their general benefit * * *. Now, the deed is the initial point from which all these proceedings are inaugurated. Without it, they could not take place. * * * no one would draw it on the understanding that he was to be paid only a dividend on his fee out of an insolvent estate. Persons in the situation of the grantor in this case are prohibited by the statute from granting a priority to a favored creditor. But surely this prohibition does not include the case of a debt incurred for the benefit of the creditors, and as a necessary means of dedicating the property to their use.” Wolsheimer v. Revinus, supra, 1 A. at pages 129-130. (Emphasis supplied.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Abrams v. United States