Warner v. . Jaffray’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1984 · most notably Cole v. Cunningham (1890), Blackstone v. Miller (1903)
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 52 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Relationships
Relies on Hervey v. Rhode Island Locomotive Works · Green v. Van Buskirk · Hoyt v. . the Commissioners of Taxes · Brennan v. . Willson · Syracuse, Binghamton & New York Railroad v. Collins
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“did not operate upon the creditors of the assignor, nor place them under any obligations. It left them entirely free to act. They could utterly refuse, to have anything to do with it, and retain their claims and enforce them in their own time, as best they could, against their debtor. The-assignee became a trustee for such creditors of the assignor only as chose to accept him as such, and without their assent the .assignment did not bring the creditors into any relation with the assignee, or with each other. The law did not take this insolvent’s property for distribution among his creditors, but its distribution was his own act. Any one of his creditors could,, notwithstanding the assignment, enforce his claim against any property of the assignor not conveyed by the assignment, without violating any rights or equities of the other creditors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cole v. Cunningham“The transfer of the title to the receiver was not in contravention of any law of Pennsylvania, and hence it was held .that as against a citizen of Virginia, bound by its laws, the appointment of a receiver, binding upon him there, would, by comity, be held to be binding upon him in Pennsylvania.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cole v. Cunningham“provided that no bona fide purchaser, mortgagee, or creditor, having a lien thereon before the recording in the same county, and not having previous actual notice thereof, shall be affected or prejudiced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cole v. Cunningham
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.