Gifford v. Helms’s Empirical Analysis
98 U.S. 248 · 1878
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1988 · most notably Pinney Dock & Transport Co. v. Penn Central Corp. (1988), Rosenthal v. Walker (1884)
4 federal appellate · 7 district · 11 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 Terry v. Anderson · Cleveland v. . Boerum
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ This is a statute of limitations; it is precisely like other statutes of limitations, and applies to all judicial contests between the assignee and other persons touching the property or rights of property of the bankrupt transferable to or vested in the assignee, where the interests are adverse, and have so existed for more than two years from the time tho cause of action accrued for or against the assignee.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Nothing can be plainer in legal decision than the proposition that the complainant did not acquire, by the conveyance made to him under that sale, any greater rights than those possessed by the grantor;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wisner v. Brown
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.