In re D. Levy & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
142 F. 442 · 1905
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1942
8 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 In re Schlesinger · Schweer v. Brown · In re Bedingfield · Ripon Knitting Works v. Schreiber · In re Meyers
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question is whether it is sufficient for the bankrupts to state that they have not the property. If they have not the property, they should tell what they did with it. If they cannot do this, the court would be justified in finding that they still had it. Their books, kept for the very purpose of showing what they have or have not, state that they have this balance. The record is their own. If it is not complete, let them complete it. Their own written books, to the effect that they have $12,921.87, is better than their generalization that they have none of it. If it were sufficient for a bankrupt to deny generally, in the face of his own books, the suppression of assets would be unimpeded. Another opportunity should be given the bankrupts to make the necessary explanation, and point out with some approximate accuracy the disposition of so large an amount of goods within so short a space of time.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re H. Magen Co.
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.