In re Blount’s Empirical Analysis
142 F. 263 · 1906
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 1989
9 federal appellate · 3 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 Fort Leavenworth Co v. Lowe · Pirie v. Chicago Title & Trust Co. · Willard v. Wood · In re Gillette · Patton v. Adkins
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It the contention of the respondent is to be sustained, the involuntary feature of the Bankruptcy Act would be a dead letter; for any insolvent who desired to prefer some of Ids creditors, leaving out one or two, could always manage to have as many as 20 creditors by purchasing for his personal use and * his family small things amounting to sums ranging, as in the case et bar. from 10 cents to $2, and having them charged. By paying them the succeeding month, after he had made some small purchases, to be charged again, it would always leave a number of creditors ready to be used whenever proceedings of this kind are instituted against him. It is hardly reasonable to suppose that creditors of that kind, who feel secure in having their bills promptly paid, would want to incur the risk of losing a good customer in order to join a bona fide creditor to institute proceedings In bankruptcy. A11 laws must bo given a reasonable construction, and for this reason the claims hereinbefore recited must be disregarded in determining the number of the creditors of Mr. Blount at the time these proceedings wei'o instiluted, and if this is done it clearly appeared that there were less than 12 creditors.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Branche
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