Preas v. Kirkpatrick & Burks’s Empirical Analysis
115 F.2d 802 · 1940
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1977
6 federal appellate · 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 Hoyd v. Citizens Bank of Albany Co. · Byrd v. United States
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * if an arrangement is withdrawn or abandoned prior to its acceptance and no other arrangement is pending, * * * at the meeting of creditors or within such further time as the court may fix, * * * the court shall — * * * (2) where the petition was filed under section 822 of this title, enter an order upon hearing after notice to the debtor, and such other persons as the court may direct, either adjudging the debtor a bankrupt * * * or dismissing the proceedings under this chapter, whichever in the opinion of the court may be in the interests of the creditors.”
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.