In re Gurewitz’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions

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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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The reason' for a concise definition of ‘wage-earner’ is made apparent by an examination of section 4b, 30 Stat. 547 (U. S. Oomp. St. 1901, p. 3423), which provides that ‘any natural person, except a wage-earner or person engaged chiefly in farming or the tillage of the soil, * * * may be adjudged an involuntary bankrupt.’ When a wage-earner was thus excepted from the operation of the involuntary features of the act, it became necessary to define with precision the meaning of the term. We are, however, of the opinion that the definition lias no application to the present controversy, for the reason that the defined word is not found in section 64b (4), 30 Stat. 563 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3447).””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Crown Point Brush Co.

2. ““There is nothing ambiguous about the use of the word 'wages’ in this connection. It means the agreed compensation for services rendered by the workmen, clerks, or servants of the bankrupt — those who have served him in a subordinate or menial capacity, and who are supposed to he dependent upon their earnings for iheir present support. Whether their employer has agreed to pay them by the hour, the day, the week, the month, or by the ‘job’ or piece, is wholly immaterial.’’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Crown Point Brush Co.