Chatfield v. O'Dwyer’s Empirical Analysis
101 F. 797 · 1900
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably Official Committee of Unsecureds of Cybergenics Corporation Cybergenics Corporation v. Chinery L&s Lp, Ohio Valley Bank Co. v. Mack (1906)
29 federal appellate · 6 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 In re Little River Lumber Co.
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.
“■ “The office of a trustee under the present bankrupt act is entirely analogous to that of an assignee under the bankrupt law of 1867 [Act March 2, 1867, e. 176, 14 Stat. 517 ]. The trustee is elected by, and is the representative of,. the creditors; and, following the general analogies of the law, he is the ■ appropriate person to see that no unjust or fictitious claims are allowed to be paid out of the assets in his hands. 1-Iis duties .are very similar .to .those of an administrator or executor. It is his duty to ascertain that all .claims presented for allowance, or that may have been allowed, are genuine; and. under subdivision 6, rule 21, of the rules in bankruptcy formulated by the Supreme Court of the United States (89 Fed. x, 32 C. C. A. xxiii), the . trustee has been empowered to file a petition with the referee to have any Claim further investigated, when for any reason he may desire a re-examination of the same. Furthermore, if one creditor of a bankrupt may prosecute 'an appeal, under section 25 of the bankrupt law [Act July 1, 189S, e. 541, 30 Stat. 553 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3432)], from the allowance of a claim, then any other creditor may take a like appeal upon the same or different grounds, and this court may be required to entertain a number of appeals, all of which are brought to test the validity of the same demand. In a case which arose under the old bankrupt law (In re Randall, 1 Sawy. 56 , 20 Fed. Cas. 226, 228), Judge Deady pointed out very clearl”
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.