In re Habegger’s Empirical Analysis
139 F. 623 · 1905
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1999
4 federal appellate · 2 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 Randolph v. Scruggs · In re Kross · Pratt v. Bothe · Furth v. Stahl · Clark v. Sawyer
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(d) If a debtor shall, directly or indirectly, in contemplation of the filing of a petition by or .against him, pay money or transfer property to an attorney and counselor at law, solicitor in equity, or proctor in admiralty for services to be rendered, the transaction shall be re-examinéd by the court on petition of the trustee or any creditor and shall only be held valid to the extent of a reasonable amount to be determined by the court, and the excess may be recovered by the. trustee for the benefit of the estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Conrad v. Pender“(b) The debts to have priority, except as herein provided, and to be paid in full out of bankrupt estates, and the order of payment shall be'\ . . (3) the cost of administration, . . . and’ one reásonable attorney’s fee for the professional services actually rendered, irrespective of the number of attorneys employed, to the petitioning creditors in involuntary cases, to the (bankrupt in involuntary cases while performing the duties herein prescribed, and to the bankrupt in”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Conrad v. Pender“I cannot agree to any such construction of the act as would deprive the attorney of a proper compensation for a necessary service, merely because he did not take it out of the estate at his own estimate in advance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Falk
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.