Meredith v. Thralls’s Empirical Analysis
144 F.2d 473 · 1944
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 1993
5 federal appellate ·
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. § 501 · 11 U.S.C. § 556 · 11 U.S.C. § 558 · 11 U.S.C. § 561 (§ 907 of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
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.
“It also appears that the debtor has had and is likely to continue to have business dealings with Prudence Bonds Corporation and other units of the so-called Prudence group of companies, in all of which the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is heavily interested. As the representative of the latter and as additional trustee of the debtor Mr. Thralls will necessarily be under a cross-fire of conflicting loyalties in any such transaction. ... We are of opinion that the appointment was unauthorized.”
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.