In re Slack’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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

1. ““Section <i of the Bankruptcy Act takes care of the bankrupt in certain respects while he lives. Section 8 continues the machinery of the court after his death or insanity, but. proceeds with caution to offer to the widow and children of the bankrupt, who shall die or become insane after the proceedings have been instituted, the fostering care of the federal tribunal just as far as the local tribunal had been authorized to go by its creator, the local I'-iegislature, and no further. If the proceedings were abated by the death or insanity of the bankrupt, it is clear that the probate court would have had ample authority to make the allowance. But the Congress says that they shall not abate, and in the same breath says that ‘the widow and children shall be entitled to all rights of dower and allowance fixed by the law of the state.’””

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

2. ““The death or insanity of a bankrupt shall not abate the proceedings, but the same- shall be conducted and concluded in the same manner, so far as possible, as though he had not died or become insane: Provided, that in case of death the widow and children shall be entitled to all rights of dower and allowance fixed by the laws of the state of the bankrupt’s residence.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Dicks

3. ““The estate of the bankrupt, that the creditors are entitled to the benefit of, has gone to the trustee for sale and distribution of the proceeds, but not for inheritance, or ,for distribution of the real estate itself. The bankrupt is not, wholly disseised till the land is gone out of the estate.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Dicks