In re Hanson’s Empirical Analysis
156 F. 717 · 1904
Citation profile
6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 1953
6 district ·
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 Falter v. Reinhard · In re Rekersdres · In re Henschel
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But it is well settled by all the authorities that the trustee represents the creditors, and not the bankrupt, in the administration of the estate, and that it is improper that the bankrupt shall actively interfere with the matter of his selection and appointment, and that if he does interfere, and the person aided by him is appointed by votes procured by such interference, the appointment should for that reason be disapproved.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The appointment of a trustee by the creditors shall be subject to be approved or disapproved by the referee or by the judge; and he shall be removable by the judge only.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Sitting
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.