Derby v. Worcester County’s Empirical Analysis
102 F. 808 · 1900
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 12 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1940 · most notably Josiah Coder v. William Arts (1909), Hutchinson v. Otis (1903)
30 federal appellate · 12 district · 1 state decisions
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Aspen Mining & Smelting Co. v. Billings · Central Trust Co. Of New York v. Grant Locomotive Works (Two Cases) · Kingman Co v. Western Mfg Co · Idaho Oregon Land Imp Co v. Bradbury · Thompson v. Saint Nicholas National Bank
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are unable to conceive of any priority to which any one may be entitled by the laws of a state under section 64 of the bankruptcy act, unless it be a priority created by insolvent laws of that character. It is true that priorities are often created by state statutes relating to the administration of estates of deceased persons, and also to proceedings for winding up corporations ; b*tit such laws are not of that general character which can be supposed to be within the purview of the provision of the bankruptcy act which is concerned here. Of course, statutes touching assignments for the benefit of creditors must be classed with insolvency laws, strictly so called.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Inasmuch as the petition was filed during the June term, and was not stricken out, but was heard and its merits acted on at the September term, it must be accepted that thp petition was filed at the June term with the consent of the court, and that the court thus held its control over the proceeding. * * * The District Court therefore had power during the term at which the decree was entered to vacate it and enter a new decree, and retained this power over the case by .permitting the filing of the petition for a rehearing, as we have already shown, so that the result is in all respects the same as though all the proceedings had occurred at the June term.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A petition, which we held to be in substance a petition for a rehearing, was seasonably filed in an equity cause at the October term of the Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts. There was nothing in the case to show that the petition was brought to the attention of that court until the succeeding May term, when it heard it on its merits and denied it. We held that the proceeding was effective, and that the time for appeal did not begin to run until the petition was denied.””
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.