London v. Snyder’s Empirical Analysis
163 F.2d 621 · 1947
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 1981 · most notably Finn v. Childs Co. (1950), Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. Brock (1968)
13 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 501
Relies on Woods v. City Nat Bank & Trust Co of Chicago · In re Detroit International Bridge Co. · Vermilion Bay Land Co. v. Fitzgerald · Silver v. Scullin Steel Co. · Stark v. Woods Bros.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The allowance of compensation to counsel * * * is always in the sound discretion of the bankruptcy court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Compensation allowed others in the same proceeding or in other reorganizations affords little or no evidence of the reasonableness or reverse of an order of allowance under review on appeal.”
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.