Beall v. Dushane’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate ·

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

1. ““It has always been a principle of the bankrupt law that property which from its nature or condition may be a burden rather than a benefit to the estate does not pass to the assignee without a distinct acceptance by him, and that in the absence of such acceptance it remains in the bankrupt.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Frazin