Flint v. Chaloupka’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions

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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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is a well established rule that where a transfer of land is made by a debtor to a near relative in consideration of a past due indebtedness, the burden rests upon the grantee in a cifeditor’s suit to show that the debt was genuine, that his purpose was honest and that he acted in good faith in obtaining title. Such transactions are looked upon with suspicion, and the suspicion continues until the grantee shows the good faith of the transfer by clear and satisfactory evidence. Generally when'the transaction is in fraud of creditors knowledge thereof rests only with the near relatives or those in privity with the debtor. When the testimony relied upon 'to show good faith is given by interested relatives only the reasonableness or unreasonableness of ,their evidence has considerable weight in arriving at a just conclusion.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Folmer v. Simpson