Morgan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1979
2 federal appellate · 14 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 Hickman v. Parlin-Orendorff Co. · Roberts Cotton Oil Co. v. F. E. Morse & Co.
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.
““Art. 1, sec. 8, of the Constitution of the United States provides that Congress shall have power to pass uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States. Congress has exercised this power and enacted a general bankrupt law for the United States, and business corporations like the Consumers Ice & Coal Company may become voluntary bankrupts under its provisions. See Barnes’ Federal Code, 1919, sec. 9089. ... “The Attorney General relies upon the case of In re Associated, Oil Co., Inc., 271 Fed. 788 . In that case it was held that after a receiver has been appointed for a corporation by a State court, under authority of the laws of the State, with power to take possession of and hold the property of the corporation, its directors are without power to authorize the filing of a petition in voluntary bankruptcy and the surrender of its property to the bankruptcy court. “It is true that in that case, as in the present one, the petition in bankruptcy was filed pursuant to a resolution of the board of directors of the corporation, declaring that the affairs of the corporation were in a precarious state, owing to the pendency of a suit in the State court for a receiver; but there the analogy ends. The State court in that case did not enjoin the directors from filing a petition in bankruptcy and did not attempt to punish them for contempt in so doing. The receiver appointed by the State court appeared in the bankruptcy court and contested the right of the direc”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.