Hampton v. Rouse’s Empirical Analysis
89 U.S. 263 · 1874
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1937
7 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 Alternas v. Campbell
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As'soon as an assignee is appointed and qualified, the judge, or when there is no opposing interest, the register shall, by an instrument under his hand, assign and convey to the assignee all the' estate, real and personal, of the bankrupt, with all his deeds, books, and papers;relating thereto, and such assignment shall relate back to the ■commencement of the proceedings in bankruptcy, and by operation of law shall vest the title, to all such property and estate, both reál and personal, in the assignee, although the same is then attached on mesne process as the property of the debtor, and shall dissolve any such attachment made within four months next preceding the' commencement of the bankruptcy proceedings.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Conner v. Long“until an assignee- is appointed and qualified, and the conveyance or assignment is made fcb him, the title to the property, whatever it may be, remains in’the bankrupt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Conner v. Long
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.