United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 13 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors v. R.F. Lafferty & Co. (2001), Wight v. BankAmerica Corp. (2000)
15 federal appellate · 13 district · 9 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.
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 544 · 11 U.S.C. § 546
Relies on United States v. Security Industrial Bank · Florida v. Royer · Caplin v. Marine Midland Grace Trust Co. of New York · Fertel-Rust v. Milwaukee Police Department · Boyd v. Brown
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This rule imputes the agent's knowledge to the principal notwithstanding the agent's self-dealing because the party that should have been informed was the agent itself albeit in its capacity as principal.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] bankruptcy trustee, suing on behalf of the debtor under. New York law, may pursue an action for breach of fiduciary duty against the debtor's fiduciaries.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is a narrow one and applies only when the agent has `totally abandoned' the principal's interests.”
3 later decisions 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.