Heiser v. Woodruff’s Empirical Analysis
150 F.2d 867 · 1945
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1979
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Relies on Pfister v. Northern Illinois Finance Corp. · Ohio Valley Bank Co. v. Mack · Fred Reuping Leather Co. v. Fort Greene Nat. Bank of Brooklyn, N. Y. · Chatfield v. O'Dwyer · Berkshire Trust Co. v. Gar Wood Industries, Inc.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * And it has been held over a long period that in ordinary circumstances a general creditor in a bankruptcy proceeding cannot maintain an appeal from an order or judgment of the district court allowing a claim of another creditor which merely affects the estate generally. His remedy is to call upon the trustees to appeal from an order or judgment of that kind, and if the trustee refuses the creditor may apply to the court for an order authorizing him to proceed with the appeal. [Citations omitted]”
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.