In re Waxelbaum’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 12 district ·

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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The debtor guilty of wilful fraud in the concealment of part of his property from his creditors, of which he is possessed when he seeks the benetit of the exemption, shall, on account of his fraud, lose the benefit of such exemption, and his property shall he subject to the payment of all just debts which he owed at the time such fraud was committed.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Stephens · In re Boorstin

2. ““Tbe fact alone disclosed by tbe referee that, 11 months before tbe petition in bankruptcy was filed, the bankrupt had a large amount of stock and a very small amount of indebtedness, and that at the time the petition was filed he had a very large amount of indebtedness and a comparatively small amount of stock, without any more satisfactory explanation than is shown in the record in this case, would be sufficient to defeat the exemption.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Dobbs

3. ““The rule Is well recognized that the district court will not interfere with the action of the referee in bankruptcy as to his findings on facts, unless the same are manifestly erroneous.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Stephens