Lee v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 1972
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 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 Donaldson Assignee v. Farwell et al. · Nichols v. . Michael · Nichols v. . Pinner · Devoe v. . Brandt · Thompson v. Rose
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.
““Where, as here, a person orders goods, knowing himself to be insolvent, without disclosing his insolvency, and with the preconceived purpose of not paying for them at -all, or, at most, only a very small per cent., and with the further preconceived purpose of having them swell his assets, for the benefit of those whom he intends to make his preferred creditors, the purchase is fraudulent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Friedman
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.