In re Hornstein’s Empirical Analysis
122 F. 266 · 1903
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 14 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 1941
7 federal appellate · 14 district · 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 Metcalf Brothers Company v. Benjamin Barker Jr · White v. Schloerb · Hicks v. Knost · Hill v. Harding · McQuade v. Inhabitants of City of Trenton
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Three or more creditors who have provable claims against any person which amount in the aggregate, in excess of the value of securities held by them, if any, to five hundred dollars or over, or if all of the creditors of such person are less than twelve in number, then one of such creditors whose claim equals such amount may file a petition to have him adjudged a bankrupt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Hanyan
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.