Willcox v. Goess’s Empirical Analysis
92 F.2d 8 · 1937
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2001
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 55 · 12 U.S.C. § 65
Relies on Ohio Bell Telephone Co. v. Public Utilities Commission · Brown v. O'Keefe · Benedict v. Ratner · Keppel v. Tiffin Savings Bank · Maynard v. Elliott
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is true that a times when the debtor and the creditor have had a running merchandise account, begun after the debtor is insolvent, and ending in an enrichment of the estate, payments made upon the account are not treated as preferences. Jaquith v. Alden, 189 U.S. 78 , 23 S.Ct. 649 , 47 L.Ed. 717 ; Yaple v. Dahl-Millikan Grocery Co., 193 U.S. 526 , 24 S.Ct. 552 , 48 L.Ed. 776 ; Wild v. Provident Trust Co., 214 U.S. 292 , 29 S.Ct. 619 , 53 L.Ed. 1003 ; In re Fred Stern & Co., 54 F.(2d) 478 (C.C.A.2). The doctrine is somewhat anomalous at best, and can be defended in principle only by the fiction of treating all items of the account as one and the payment as therefore subject to a set-off of the dividends payable on all. Even that will not serve unless the dividends exhaust the preference.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.