Sheldon v. Mann’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 1915
3 federal appellate · 19 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 Risser v. Hoyt · Kendall v. Bishop · Root v. Potter · Cribb v. Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co. · Neumann v. Calumet & Hecla Mining Co.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Obtained their security honestly, and in the usual methods of business, without any thought of the assignment law. But whether they did so or not, whatever their motive or intent may have been, so long as the securities covered no more than the amount of their just and honest claims against Mann, they have a right to the full benefit of such securities, unless the giving of these three mortgages upon the same day to separate parties can be declared, in law and in fact, to be a common-law assignment of all the debtor’s property for the benefit of all his creditors. It plainly cannot be so declared or construed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.