In re Levy’s Empirical Analysis
127 F.2d 62 · 1942
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2005
2 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 Williams v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Witt v. Berman · In re Hammerstein · Austin v. Markham · In re Dietz
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any offer of that character [compromising the creditor’s challenge to discharge upon payment of $5,000] is wholly illegal. The reason is plain. Discharge is not personal to the creditors, it is general to the public and particularly that part of it which constitutes the world of commerce. Person's with undesirable business ethics are not to be turned loose to prey on their fellow merchants. This general protection cannot be waived by particular creditors whose private greed outruns their community spirit .... (footnotes omitted).”
4 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.