Webster v. Barnes Banking Co.’s Empirical Analysis
113 F.2d 1003 · 1940
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably In re Chung King, Inc. (1985), Sweetwater Citicorp Acceptance Company Inc v. W Robison
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Graffam v. Burgess · Schroeder v. Young · Sandusky v. National Bank · Kentucky Joint Land Bank Lexington v. Fitzpatrick · Weeks v. . Weeks
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] court of equity may set aside an order of sale either before or after confirmation when it appears that the same was entered through mistake, inadvertence, or improvidence. While a judicial sale will not be set aside on the ground of inadequacy of price alone, unless the inadequacy is so great as to shock the conscience of the chancellor, inadequacy of price, accompanied with other circumstances having a tendency to cause such inadequacy, or indicating any apparent unfairness or impropriety, will justify setting aside the sale. Such additional circumstances may be slight and insufficient in themselves to justify vacating the sale.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The sale was wholly illusory. The action of the trustee in petitioning for leave to make the sale and the order of the referee directing the sale were clearly improvident and worked a legal fraud on the creditors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mason v. Ashback
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.