creditor preference
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 74 U.S. 299 - Drury v. Cross · 1868Most cited · 96 citing opinions
a debtor has a legal right to prefer one creditor over another, when the transaction is bona fide; but... the law condemns any plan in the disposition of property which necessarily accomplishes a fraudulent result
How often courts cite the case defining “creditor preference”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “creditor preference” — 96 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.