In Re Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 1991
2 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 23 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act)
Relies on United States v. Shaw · Cline v. Kaplan · Alexander v. Hillman · MacDonald v. Plymouth County Trust Co. · Page v. Arkansas Natural Gas Corp.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““is as applicable to the United States as it would be to any other unsecured claimant who has filed a claim in the proceeding, for there is nothing in the Act, excepting the priority of payment mentioned, to indicate that the government is to be accorded any rights or privileges denied to other creditors. * * * Thus * * * it was the intention of Congress to waive the immunity of the United States from suits in matters arising out of the participation of the United States as a claimant in bankruptcy proceedings. * * * If this were not so the government would be in a position to ‘reach out with Briarean arms to gather the benefits * * and then draw back under the protection of its sovereign immunity, even while an accounting upon its claim before the Referee in bankruptcy is in progress’.” In re Ward, supra, 131 F.Supp. at page 396.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““the government [had] ignored the issue and confined its argument to the merits. It was not until after the Referee had made his findings and order, leaving nothing to be done but settlement of the decree, that the government asserted a lack of jurisdiction. This came too late.” Ibid. [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““that the United States consented to such jurisdiction both by the filing of its unsecured claims and by waiver of any rights of objection.” Id., 131 F.Supp. at page 397.”
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.