Bither v. Coleman’s Empirical Analysis
159 F. 73 · 1907
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1959
8 federal appellate · 7 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 Denver First National Bank v. Klug · In re First Nat. Bank of Belle Fourche · Boonville Nat. Bank of Boonville v. Blakey · In re Lacov · Link Belt Machinery Co. v. Hughes
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is tlie general rule that receivers are to select counsel not identified with the interests of one or the other party to the litigation (Beach on Receivers, § 262; Gluck & Becker on Receivers of Corp. § 47; In re Kelly Dry Goods Company [D. C.] 4 Am. Bankr. Rep. 528, 102 Fed. 747 , 749); and for departure from this wholesome rule special circumstances and authorization are needful.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Ordinarily, the duties of this statutory receiver neither require nor justify employment of an attorney, and. it is plain that no claim for such services is chargeable per se as against the estale, predicated alone upon the fact of employment and service rendered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Leonard
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.