Nichols v. Levy’s Empirical Analysis
72 U.S. 433 · 1866
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1988 · most notably Fosdick v. Schall (1878), McArthur v. Scott (1885)
5 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 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 Fisher v. Taylor
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“except, when such trust has, in good faith, been created by, or the fund so held in trust has proceeded from, some person other than the defendant himself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Spindle v. Shreve“•‘It is a settled rule of law that the beneficial interest o£ the cestui que trust, whatever it may bo, is liable for the payment of his debts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Baudouine
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.