In re Spalding’s Empirical Analysis
139 F. 244 · 1905
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1936
9 federal appellate · 8 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
Relies on Russell v. Place · In re Watts · Davis v. Brown · William Watts David Sachs · Vaccaro v. Security 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Or, being insolvent,- applied for a receiver or trustee for his property or because of insolvency a receiver or trustee has been put in charge of his property under the laws of a state, of a territory, or of the United States.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If the court had merely appointed a receiver, without reciting the grounds of its judgment, the record could have been referred to, or the grounds shown by evidence aliunde. Russell v. Place, 94 U. S. 608 [ 24 L. Ed. 214 ]; Davis v. Brown, 94 U. S. 428 [ 24 L. Ed. 204 ].” In re Spalding (C. C. A., 2d Circuit) 139 Fed. 244 . 247, 71 C. C. A. 370 , 373.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Giving subdivision a (4) tile construction which, its language demands, we are of the opinion that it does not make a receivership an act of bankruptcy unless it was procured upon the application of the insolvent himself, and while insolvent; and does not make the putting a receiver in charge of the property of an insolvent an act of bankruptcy unless this was done because of insolvency.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Rankin
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.