Gilbert v. Peppers’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 1966
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 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 Lockhard v. Beckley · Livesay's Ex'r v. Beard · Claflin v. Foley · Frye v. Miley · Dulaney v. Willis
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As to them it is valid, whether recorded or not. A mere personal debt bears no relation to the property of the debtor, since it does not constitute a lien thereon. Before a creditor can claim any legal right in respect to the property of his debtor, or any interest therein, in law or equity, he must, by some means, acquire a lien thereon, as by an attachment or reduction of his debt to judgment.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““shall be void as to creditors * * * until and except from the time that it is duly admitted to record.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Until a comparatively recent date, this court held all deeds of trust on stocks of mercantile goods, allowing the debtor to remain in possession of the property and sell and dispose of the same, fraudulent and void per se” — citing Shattuck v. Knight, supra, and other decisions of the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Swager v. Smith
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.