Dudley v. Mealey’s Empirical Analysis
147 F.2d 268 · 1945
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2011 · most notably Reading Company v. Brown (1968), Stanziale v. Jargowsky (2000)
25 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
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
Relies on Meinhard v. Salmon · Case v. Los Angeles Lumber Products Co. · Consolidated Rock Products Co. v. Du Bois · Group of Institutional Investors v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad · Galveston Harrisburg San Antonio Railway Company v. State of Texas
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . Just as it is recognized that, after insolvency, the expenses of continued operation of a business may be necessary to preserve its value for the secured creditors themselves, and for that reason that the receiver's creditors have priority, so it may be before insolvency. To take the case at bar, upon the continued operation of a hotel its good will depends; let it once shut down, and it will lose much of its value. Unless the tradesmen with whom it must deal can be protected, as its credit slowly wanes before final insolvency, it must begin to trade upon a cash basis, which may be difficult or even impossible. Some priority to them may be essential to the preservation of the business during that period as it is later. While the interests of the public were no doubt the paramount consideration in the origin of the rule, the interests of the lienors themselves may make equally imperative some protection to supply creditors.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““And this is a particularly apt consideration in a reorganization, when the debtor is not to be liquidated, and when the very purpose of the action is to continue the existing business in the interest of the secured creditors — and, as here, of them alone.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“63 The limit of our review is to say whether the method of valuation used by the district court and the figure which it found as the maximum value of the assets were”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Spitzer v. Stichman
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.