In re Godwin’s Empirical Analysis
122 F. 111 · 1903
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 1933
1 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.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is very'likely that the creditors may lose hy the defeat of the proposed composition; hut this consideration cannot he allowed to influence the court in deciding whether the bankrupt has been ‘guilty of any of the nets, or failed to perform any of the duties, which would be a bar to his discharge.’ * ⅜ ⅜ The fact that only one creditor is actively objecting, while a large majority is in favor of taking what the bankrupt offers, is of no importance in the present inquiry.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Comstock
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.