Geiger v. Peyser’s Empirical Analysis
123 F.2d 167 · 1941
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2011
7 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.
Relationships
Relies on Trustees v. Greenough · Central Railroad Banking Co of Georgia v. Pettus · Thomas v. Peyser
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n the present case, the fund was already in court, converted into money, and ready for distribution whenever the rights of the respective claimants should be determined by the court. Appellant represented one set of claimants under an agreed compensation contract, but the fund was represented by the receiver, at whose instance the court appointed special counsel to advise him; and not only is there no suggestion of failure of performance of duty on the part of either receiver or his counsel, but an admission that their duties were faithfully performed. Appellant’s suggestion of a means of compromise of the differences of the contesting claimants may very well have hastened administration of the fund and may also have been advantageous to his clients and some others in like situation with them, but this is not enough to justify an order requiring the latter to pay him involuntary tribute ... [citation omitted] “Where the duty of the court and receivers is evident, attorneys’ fees cannot be awarded to one who voluntarily comes into court to point out that duty, whether in friendly or unfriendly litigation”. This we said was true in that case — as it is in this — because otherwise a fund could be completely dissipated by numerous interven-ers eager to assist the court and its receivers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.