Seymour v. Wildgen’s Empirical Analysis
137 F.2d 160 · 1943
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2003 · most notably Hasset v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield (In Re O.P.M. Leasing Services, Inc.) (1985), Jones v. Kemp (1944)
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
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. § 110
Relies on Frank Thompson v. Henry Fairbanks · Knapp v. Milwaukee Trust Co. · Thompson v. Fairbanks · Commercial Credit Co. v. Davidson · Shoemake v. Davis
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not undertake to determine what property belonged to the bankrupt as of the date of bankruptcy * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Questions of that nature are determined by reference to the law of the state.”
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.