In Re Van Meter’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 1991
5 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 11 U.S.C. § 107
Relies on Red Bud Realty Co. v. South · Wil-Rud Corp. v. Lynch · Dunsdon v. Federal Land Bank · Walker v. Commercial National Bank of Little Rock · Humphreys v. Butler
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that misappropriated or trust funds may be recovered by the true owner provided he is able to trace the funds into the hands of a person who has no better right thereto, and this is true even though the funds have been converted into a new form. In re Tate-Jones & Co., Inc., D.C.Pa., 85 F.Supp. 971 ; Rainwater v. Wildman, 172 Ark. 521 , 289 S.W. 488 ; Red Bud Realty Co. v. South, 96 Ark. 281 , 131 S.W. 340 . “But, if the original owner is not able to trace the funds into any specific property, he has no grounds for the establishment of a constructive trust or an equitable lien. See, Rainwater v. Wildman, supra.””
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.