Smith Jd Gl Boyer’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Molded Acoustical Products Inc Fiber Lite Corporation v. Molded Acoustical Products Inc (1994), P.A. Bergner & Co. v. Bank One, Milwaukee, N.A. (1998)
6 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Begier v. Internal Revenue Service · Barnhill v. Johnson · Williams v. United States · Tompkins v. Texas
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for the specific purpose of paying a selected creditor.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]ontrol has two components: first, the power to designate which party will receive the funds, and second, the power to actually disburse the funds at issue to that party. In other words, control means control over identifying the payee, and control over whether the payee will actually get paid.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The real question here is whether the Debtor was actually able to exercise sufficient dominion and control over the funds to demonstrate an interest in property. Although the Bank was not statutorily required to extend provisional credit, it nevertheless did so ... By itself, such a provisional credit might not evidence an interest of the Debtor in property; but the Debtor exercised dominion and control over the funds by making actual payment to a creditor. The Debtor surely had something of value during the period when the Bank was extending the provisional credit. Instead of writing [one] check ... the Debtor could have written several checks, paying off each of its creditors on a pro rata basis. Alternatively, the Debtor could have purchased a 40-foot yacht. The point is that the debtor exercised significant control (over a significant amount of money) in choosing to pay off a single creditor.”
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.