Boyum v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
127 F.2d 491 · 1942
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1993 · most notably Pfister v. Northern Illinois Finance Corp. (1942), 30 Del. Ch. 538 - Blish v. Thompson Automatic Arms Corp. (1948)
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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 Pepper v. Litton · Boteler v. Ingels · Jones v. Morrison · Backus-Brooks Co. v. Northern Pac. Ry. Co. · Biggs v. Mays
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The record shows that the bankrupt was essentially a one-man corporation. Boyum was the controlling stockholder and virtually ran the affairs of the corporation. His general dealings with the corporation were not on the arm’s length plane of the other creditors. The cash advances which he made were apparently necessary to supply a deficiency in working capital. From their amounts, duration, and continuing need, they were hardly mere ordinary commercial incidents, but rather part of a plan of permanent, personal financing, to avoid the necessity of increasing the capital of the corporation. Boyum note claims, therefore, cannot be said to occupy an equal equitable position with the other general claims and should accordingly be subordinated to them.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"As to the summary jurisdiction of the court to require the refunding of any excess dividend paid to a creditor, there can be no sound question under subdivision ( l ), section 57 of the Chandler Act, 52 Stat. 866 , 11 U.S.C.A. § 93 , sub. ( l )." Boyum v. Johnson, 127 F.2d 491, at 497 (8th Cir. 1942).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.