In re Blair’s Empirical Analysis

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8 federal appellate · 6 district ·

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “‘‘An attachment on mesne process under the statutes of Massachusetts which creates a Hen, under the decisions of the courts, enforceable, however, only by obtaining judgment and issuing execution thereon within a limited time, is not discharged, under Bankruiticy Act 1S9S, § 67f, by the filing of a petition in bankruptcy against (he defendant more than four months after such attachment was levied, although the judgment was not obtained until within the four months; nor are the judgment and execution issued thereon rendered void by such section, since they do not affect with a iien the property attached, but only enforce the lien already existing, and which, having attached more than four months before the filing of the petition, is, by necessary implication, preserved by the act.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Folger v. Putnam

2. ““Where, however, the lien is created by the attachment, the judgment and levy create no new or additional lien, but only enforce a lien already existing. Hence in this case the levy and execution did not affect the property attached with a lien avoided by the bankrupt act, but only enforced a lien already existing, which lien the bankrupt act expressly protected.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Beaver Coal Co.

3. ““In order to prevent any misapprehension, we will add that the question whether or not the attaching creditor acquired a valid lien as against these proceedings in bankruptcy is not in issue on this appeal.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Folger v. Putnam