Amick v. Hotz’s Empirical Analysis
101 F.2d 311 · 1939
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1985
5 federal appellate · 1 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 Union Trust Co of New York v. Illinois Midland Ry Co Borg · Ritchie v. McMullen · In re Avorn Dress Co. · Northern Finance Corp. v. Byrnes · In re Erie 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The power to continue business implies the power to make debts, and to provide for their payment, which must include the power to borrow money for urgent necessities and for direct operating expenditures. These considerations, we think, are conclusive as to the validity of the receivers’ certificates, nor has any other lienholder the right to complain of their priority.””
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.