In re Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
134 F. 319 · 1905
Citation profile
3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently January 1920
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.
Most-quoted passages
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““Section 14 of the act provides that within 12 months subsequent to the adjudication the petition for discharge may be filed, and, if unavoidably prevented from filing the same within that period, the judge may permit it to be filed within, but not after the expiration of, the next six months. In express terms the discretion of the judge is limited to the six months following the expiration of the year beginning with the date of the adjudication, and, as I construe the statute, this is a limitation on the jurisdiction of the judge over the matter of discharge. The power and right to grant a discharge effectual to bar the enforcement of debts is conferred by the statute, and is governed by the limitations found in the statute; and therefore, unless it is petitioned for within the time limit fixed by section 14 of the act, the court of bankruptcy is without the power and jurisdiction to grant a discharge.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Wagner
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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.