In re Sears’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 1 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Kxoept for that provision, such mi amendment would have been permissible, and its allowance a reasonable exercise of judicial discretion; but the provision. by implication, limits tlie power of amendment to the single case in whieh an earlier act of bankruptcy is sought to be incorporated into the petition.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gleason v. Smith, Perkins & Co.

2. ““The order allowing an amendment of the petition by the insertion of a special act of bankruptcy was erroneous, because it clearly appeared that such act of bankruptcy was not an earlier act than that first, alleged, but was later.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wilder v. Watts