In re Stalker’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 3 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Tlie significance of section 64a, as applied to a municipality, is that a claim for taxes is paramount to all other claims, because of the pecuniary needs and requirements of the municipality, and so as to relieve the general taxpayers from the payment of an unfair proportion of taxes. Some seemingly unjust features may be presented by the application of the stringent provisions of the bankrupt act referred to, but, as the law is plain and singularly free from ambiguity, it is obvious that Congress intended that the statute should be strictly construed and applied, unless the facts disclose unjust or prejudicial results.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Brinker