Adler v. Fenton’s Empirical Analysis
65 U.S. 407 · 1860
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2019 · most notably Grupo Mexicano Desarrollos v. Alliance Bond Fund Inc, Northern Securities Company v. United States (1904)
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 52 state decisions — followed in 23 states
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he act must be tortious, and there must be consequent damage”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In the absence of special legislation, we may safely affirm that a general creditor cannot bring an action on tbe case against his debtor, or against those combining and colluding with him to make dispositions of his property, although the object of those dispositions be to hinder, delay, and defraud creditors.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The most that can be said is that he intended to attach the property, and -the wrongful act of the defendant has prevented him from executing his intention.””
2 later decisions 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.