John Hancock Mut. Life Ins. v. Casey’s Empirical Analysis
134 F.2d 162 · 1943
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 1982
17 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 501
Relies on Continental Illinois Nat Bank Trust Co of Chicago v. Chicago R I & P Ry Co · Mayo v. United States · Tuttle v. Harris · Crystal v. Green Point Sav. Bank
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . [W]e have no doubt that the district court has such power . . . the property was in custodia legis as of the date of the filing of the petition.”
1 later decision 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.