Higgins v. State Loan Co.’s Empirical Analysis
114 F.2d 25 · 1940
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 1998
5 federal appellate · 3 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 Royal Indemnity Co. v. American Bond & Mortgage Co. · Latimer v. United States · In re Guanacevi Tunnel Co. · In re Lipphart · In re Mitchell
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It would seem reasonable to conclude . . . that whatever meaning the phrase “place of business” may have generally, as used in the Bankruptcy Act for jurisdictional purposes it means a place where the bankrupt has a business of his own.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Barnes v. Whelan · Barnes v. Whelan““Adjudge persons bankrupt who have had their principal place of business, resided or had their domicile within their respective territorial jurisdictions for the preceding six months, or for a longer portion of the preceding six months than in any other jurisdiction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“had removed two years before the filing of his petition to Iowa, had voted there, and for more than six months prior to the filing of his petition he not only was employed in Iowa but resided there the greater portion of his time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.