In re Slingluff’s Empirical Analysis
106 F. 154 · 1900
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 1936
2 federal appellate · 5 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 Central Nat Bank v. Hume Hume · New York Mutual Life Insurance v. Armstrong · Warnock v. Davis · Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. Schaefer · Williams v. Heard
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 trustee of the estate of a bankrupt, upon his appointment and qualification * * * shall * * * be vested by operation of law with the title of the bankrupt, as of the date he was adjudged a bankrupt, except in so far as it is to property which is exempt to all * * * (5) property which prior to the filing of the petition he could by any means have transferred or which might have been levied upon and sold under judicial process against him: provided, that when any bankrupt shall have any insurance policy which has a cash surrender value payable to himself, his estate, or personal representatives, he may, within thirty days after the cash surrender value has been ascertained and stated to the trustee by the company issuing the same, pay or secure to the trustee the sum so ascertained and stated, and continue to hold, own, and carry such policy free from the claims of the creditors participating in the distribution of his estate under the bankruptcy 'proceedings, otherwise the policy shall pass to the trustee as assets.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is clear, I think, that a contract with an insurance company which the bankrupt (the assured) could have assigned to a person competent to accept an assignment is a contract which the bankrupt could have transferred. * * * And I think it is clear that this policy, and the benefits to be derived by the bankrupt by virtue of it, was by its terms recognized by the insurance company as an assignable contract. The policy in terms provides that it may be assigned, and provides that the benefits shall be secured to the legal holder; and I think it is clear that a contract which entitles the bankrupt or his assignee to have the sum agreed upon paid to him in the event of his surviving until a certain date is property [citing many authorities].””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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