Wall v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
101 F. 403 · 1900
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1931
4 federal appellate · 8 district ·
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 Martin Fairfax v. Hunter's · Robertson v. Baldwin · Kilbourn v. Sunderland · Dollar Savings Bank v. United States · James Boyce's Executors v. Felix Grundy
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To clothe the court with power to entertain a bankruptcy petition, and discharge and relieve the bankrupt from the payment of his debts, and not confer upon it the power to make the person thus receiving an acquittance and release, and those fraudulently colluding with him, bring in and give up to the creditors interested the bankrupt’s property which of right belongs to them, would be a strange anomaly. * * * To say that the Uni led States District Court, sitting as a court of bankruptcy, with all the analogous powers and jurisdiction of a court of equity, and with jurisdiction at law and equity specially conferred upon it as ancillary and supplementary to its inherent power in an involuntary bankruptcy proceeding, can only afford the creditors the relief of making certain that the debtor is a bankrupt, and has committed acts of bankruptcy, and that, where he has fraudulently transferred his estate, although it be the act of bankruptcy set up, as in this case, that as against the alleged fraudulent transferee no relief can be afforded, but the creditors must inaugurate in the state courts wherever such transferee happens to reside litigation to secure any substantial relief, would be to impose upon them a burden that would be unreasonable in the extreme, and in many cases one that would be entirely ineffective; and, besides, it would bring about a result manifestly not contemplated by those enacting the law, the predominating feature of all bankruptcy legislation being simp”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Suits by the trustee. shall only be brought or prosecuted in the courts where the bankrupt, whose estate is being administered by such trustee, might have brought or prosecuted them, if proceedings in bankruptcy had not been instituted, unless by consent of the proposed defendant.””
1 later decision 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.