Davis v. Woolf’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The law by great weight of authority seems to be settled that when a corporation becomes insolvent, or in a failing condition, the officers and directors no longer represent the stockholders, but by fact of insolvency, become trustees for the creditors, and that they then cannot by transfer of its property or payment of cash, prefer themselves or other creditors....”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Centra Bank, Inc. v. Burton (In Re Burton) · Arabi Gin Co. v. Plexus Cotton, Ltd. (In re Joseph Walker & Co.)

2. ““He [the trustee] would be authorized to proceed under § 70, sub. e, 11 U.S. C.A. § 110, sub. e, of the Bankruptcy Act which empowers the trustee to recover any property of the debtor affected by a transfer which under any federal or state law applicable thereto is fraudulent as against, or voidable for any other reason, by any creditor of the debtor having a provable claim against the bankrupt estate; and the case would turn, as the District Judge held, on the West Virginia law. See Commonwealth Trust Co. [of Pittsburgh] v. Reconstruction F. Co., 3 Cir. 120 F.2d 254 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Realsite, Inc.