Lukins v. Aird’s Empirical Analysis
73 U.S. 78 · 1867
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1983 · most notably Benedict v. Ratner (1925), Crawford v. Neal (1892)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 16 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A debtor in failing circumstances cannot sell and convey bis land, even for a valuable consideration, by deed without reservations, and yet secretly reserve to himself the right to possess and occupy- it, for even a limited time, for his own benefit. Nor will this rule of law be changed by the fact that the right thus to occupy the property for a limited time is a part of the consideration of the sale, the money part of the consideration being on this account proportionably abated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Dauchy
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.