In re Kenney’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions

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.

1. ““Ail levies, judgments, attachments, or other liens, obtained through legal proceedings against a person who is insolvent, at anytime within four months prior to the filing of a petition in bankruptcy against him, shall be deemed null and void in case he is adjudged a bankrupt, and the property affected by the levy, judgment, attachment or other lien shall he deemed wholly discharged and released from the same, * * * and the court may order such conveyance as shall be necessary to carry the purposes of this section into effect.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Weinger, Bergman & Co.

2. ““There can be no doubt that it was the intention of congress by this section to prohibit creditors of a bankrupt from obtaining preferences over other creditors as the result of any legal proceedings against him, during the period of four months prior to the filing of the petition. And apt words are used to express that intention.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Lesser