Willis v. Hart’s Empirical Analysis
11 F.2d 530 · 1926
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1969
1 federal appellate · 4 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 Francis v. McNeal
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The prescribed fees of trustees and referees are payable in each case, while the prescribed fee of clerks is payable for their services to each estate.” The language used shows that the lawmakers recognized a distinction between a ‘ease’ and an ‘estate.’ A voluntary partnership petition in bankruptcy is the initial step in one case or proceeding, in which the partnership and individual estates both are administered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Thompson
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.