In re McKenna’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is well settled that a person, being a trustee, cannot perform legal services for himself as trustee, and have compensation therefor from the estate he represents. Nor is he under obligation to perform such legal services because he is the trustee. In many cases the compensation permitted by the bankruptcy act to a trustee in bankruptcy would not pay 10 per cent, of the value of the purely legal services rendered in addition to those legitimately performed by the trustee in the discharge of the usual duties of that office. However, when a trustee performs legal services, he cannot have additional compensation therefor.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Felson

2. ““A trustee can receive no indirect profits from the estate by reason of his connection with it. * - * If the trustees are factors, or brokers, or commission agents, or auctioneers, or hankers, or attorneys, or solicitors, .they can make no charges against the trust estate for services rendered by them in their professional capacity to the estate of which they are trustees.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Screws