Lehman v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
1 district · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1955 · most notably Hardin v. Boyd (1885), Dozier v. Farrior (1914)
1 district · 63 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 Kirkman v. Vanlier · Pharis v. Leachman · Evans v. Welch · Micou v. Ashurst · Brinkerhoff v. Brown
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But the real meaning of the- statute is that a simple-contract creditor, or a creditor at large, not having a lien by operation of law, shall have an equal right with a creditor having such lien through the aid of a court of equity to reach property subject to tho payment of debts which has been fraudulently transferred.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Buford v. Holley
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.