In re Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
13 F.2d 653 · 1926
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 1996
1 federal appellate · 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 In re Funk · In re Ward
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is too well settled to admit of discussion that an insane or an incompetent person may be proceeded against by his creditors, and his property subjected to the payment of his debts. (Citing cases). A proceeding in bankruptcy is a species of. action or suit, in its nature equitable, designed for the sequestration of the debtor’s property, that the creditors may resort to instead of an ordinary suit at law or equity. * * * “In Re Weitzel, 29 Fed.Cas. p. 604, No. 17,365, it was held: ‘That a party under guardianship as a lunatic may be adjudged a bankrupt against the consent of his guardian.’ I have found no authority adverse to this decision.””
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.