Elfast v. Lamb’s Empirical Analysis
111 F.2d 434 · 1940
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2013
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Relies on Krueger v. United States · Duparquet Huot & Moneuse Co. v. Evans · In re Fuller · Standard Acc. Ins. v. E. T. Sheftall & Co. · Levy v. Pacific Eastern Corp.
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.
““The type of receivership contemplated as an act of bankruptcy is one that involves a liquidation of all the property of the bankrupt within the jurisdiction and in substance amounts to a general assignment of the bankrupt’s assets. * * * “That to constitute an act of bankruptcy a receivership must be a general one has been the rule laid down in numerous decisions.” 7”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““While insolvent or unable to pay his debts as they matured, procured, permitted, or suffered voluntarily or involuntarily, .the appointment of a receiver or trustee to take charge of his property.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“That to constitute an act of bankruptcy a receivership must be a general one has been the rule laid down in numerous decisions.”
1 later decision 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.