In re Wright’s Empirical Analysis
157 F. 544 · 1907
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1987 · most notably Florance v. Kresge (1938), Waldschmidt v. CBS, INC. (1981)
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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 Arkansas Valley Smelting Co. v. Belden Mining Co. · 1 E.H. Smith 277 - Fortunato v. . Patten · In re Becker · Knevals v. Blauvelt · In re Wright
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If they aro property which can by any means be transferred, the creditors of the bankrupt are entitled to the benefit of them, however little they may bring. Marketability and assignability are quite distinct.””
2 later decisions 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.